Victoria Wood

“I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.”

“People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.”

“Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.”

“Life is a windowless room in the Hotel Bellevue.”

“Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?”

“I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.”

“I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.”

“In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.”

“If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.”

“I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.”

“I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.”

“Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.”

“In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.”

“All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.”

“Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.”

“Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.”

“Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.”

“Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.”

“I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.”

“My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.”