“I was shy at school, but not at home. We had a boiler that had tiles around it, so if my sister and I got new shoes we'd do a little tap dance on the tiles. I also wrote poems but would read them from behind a curtain.”

English comedian

Sarah Millican is an English comedian. Born Sarah Jane Millican, she came to prominence in British stand-up and was born in 1975. She has 90 quotes on the site. Millican won Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and later earned two Chortle Awards, a British Comedy Award, and two BAFTA nominations. In 2013, Woman's Hour named her among the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom. Her first book, How to Be Champion, was published in 2017, and that same year she married fellow comedian Gary Delaney.