Jenny Eclair Quotes

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• I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

  Jenny Eclair

  Glasses, Situation, Ifs

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• Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

  Jenny Eclair

  Height, Problem, Wells

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• What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organize everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

  Jenny Eclair

  Agents, Want, Internet

  "Me and my travels". Interview With Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

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  Mother, Dad, Hair

  "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

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  Knives, Breakfast, Down And

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• I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

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  Actresses, Punk, Convincing

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• I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

  Jenny Eclair

  Lying, Naps, Red

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.

  Jenny Eclair

  Fashion, Clothes, Feelings

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• I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

  Jenny Eclair

  Thinking, Issues, Priorities

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• I am best viewed from a distance.

  Jenny Eclair

  Distance

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• My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.

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  Daughter, Mother, Strong

  "My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

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• I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

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  Mother, Daughter, Teacher

  "This much I know". Interview With Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

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  Nice, Hero, Rate

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• As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

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  Jeans, Smoking, Looks

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• I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.

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  Style, Barmaids, Wannabes

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• Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

  Jenny Eclair

  Family, One Thing, Disposable

  "My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. Augsut 28, 2009.

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• After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

  Jenny Eclair

  Dad, Drama, School

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• I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

  Jenny Eclair

  Moderation, Lows, Keel

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.

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• The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.

  Jenny Eclair

  Holiday, Weather, Expectations

  "Me and my travels" by Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• I've got a hat face. My mother always said I've got a hat face

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  Mother, Faces, Hats

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• Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.

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  Skin Tone, Fake, Skins

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• If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

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  Beach, Track, Bars

  "Me and my travels" by Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

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  People, Feelings, Horrible

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• I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

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  Ironing Board, Boards, Stills

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• I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.

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  Thinking, Female, Time Goes By

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