A biography for Sara Pascoehasn’t been written yet.
“I try so hard to be tolerant of everyone and their choices, but people who harm pets or support factory farming have an enemy in me.”
“I didn't watch TV in the 90s and early 00s. I was too busy trying to grow out a fringe and perm.”
“I was exceptionally opinionated as a teenager, never afraid to rant and ruin a birthday party or cinema trip.”
“It sounds like a brag but I've got a separate room in my flat just for unread books; I don't let my read books touch my unread books.”
“Watching the news, there seems to be an empathy failure and miscommunication.”
“Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where regular people converse publicly with an inanimate object and escape Bedlam or a dunking.”
“If a bright-coated fundraiser was hassling a confused pensioner in the street, people would see, some hero would intervene. But it's happening in living rooms on landlines, and it will continue.”
“Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.”
“The pancreas releases insulin to make you ready for fight or flight when you're scared. So if you don't fight or flight - if you stay onstage, telling jokes - then your body stores more fat in your tummy which makes you insulin resistant. All comedians have fat bellies, even if they exercise.”
“I'm always thinking about being inclusive in my sentences.”
“The more you learn, the more becomes possible in life.”
“I wrote on my website that veganism isn't right for everyone and the first thing you have to consider is nutrition. I was saying that some use veganism as a form of eating disorder and that careful vegans replace what they cut out of their diet.”
“I was always obsessed with ancient Egypt, but any time you go back to wouldn't be as good for women as now - so it might be a quick visit.”
“I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.”
“I wanted the audience to write stories and then read them out if they wanted to. It's always the best part of the show because people are so imaginative.”
“When I was little, I wore shoes that were too small for me for years, so my feet grew weird, so my little toenails grow and then they just fall off and then they grow again.”
“Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes because they are befuddled and confused.”
“The love of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is reliant on the restrictions of Regency culture, their passion is created by repression.”
“I am very short-sighted but I don't wear my glasses as they give me a headache, so if everyone could just stand closer to me that would help.”
“When I was 18, I moved out of home. I decided to try to be an actor, so took myself off to slum it with nine humans and a million mice in a red Leytonstone house.”