Jennifer Saunders Quotes & Sayings

“I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.”

“I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.”

“But I think our humour is exactly the same today. Only, we've made rules now. We've said we are not going to do prosthetic make-up scenes, because when they take it off half your face comes off.”

“I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting and decorating my house, buying some furniture.”

“At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.”

“Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.”

“I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.”

“I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.”

“Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close.”

“You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.”