A biography for Sue Perkinshasn’t been written yet.
“When it started, 'Bake Off' wasn't a big hit. Respect to the people who said, 'We'll keep commissioning this and give it a chance.'”
“I'll go on panel shows looking like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards.”
“I'm not against embracing my femininity, but I've never bought into the idea that you have to wear a dress to do that.”
“Sometimes I get into the mindset that being heterosexual is a brave new world, because you can conceive, and you work out the rest of it once you're pregnant.”
“Food attracts a kind of nerdishness like any other sort of passion, and 'Cooks' Questions' is for those people who want to find out more.”
“For me, a great meal is a collision of company, environment, ambient temperature, the waiters, where you are emotionally.”
“I have only really been able to ever intuit my sexuality through love.”
“The only time I am not talking is when I am dancing. I look like an electrocuted octopus.”
“By making the gay character funny and sweet but above all normal, you make a far better, longer lasting statement than you would if you had an entirely gay comedy.”
“I don't have it in my personality to be frightened of things.”
“Because I'm busy, I don't sit down to a lot of big formal meals - unless I've got mates round, in which case I'll cook something.”
“'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.'”
“I'm a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.”
“I can put on a £1,000 item of clothing and make it look a mess.”
“Music is where I'm still. It's where I'm focused. It's such a joy. I'd like to make it a big part of my life.”
“I always assumed that the reason I've never run a marathon is because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line.”
“I'd never been one for leaving the comforts of home. That person wasn't me; I didn't spend my formative years youth-hostelling round Rwanda or climbing Everest in a tie-dye playsuit to raise awareness of something or other.”
“I don't think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it's like to feel odd.”
“I've hated myself since I knew my own name. But 'Bake Off' has simply confirmed to me what a bottom-feeding halfwit I am.”
“Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.”