102 Quotes by Dawn French

"You have to let kids live their own lives and make their mistakes, but it is difficult now because there are so many things in their lives which weren't in mine - I never had Facebook. And some of the things I see now I'm appalled by. So I'm as nosey about my daughter's life as I can be. I tell her, 'I'm all over you, whether you like it or not.'"

"People need to learn to take everyone as they are."

"I'm so proud to be voted as a number one role model by these young women. Of course though no-one knows more about "rolls" than I do."

"Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you’re not careful and don’t embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence."

"The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn’t understand my body."

"Writing has become my great joy – I simply love it."

"I’ve chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am."

"I never do any television without chocolate. That’s my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I’m a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It’s amazing I’m so slim."

"Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it’s fat or thin, are in a dangerous area."

"Emos don’t dance much to our music. They actually hate snow patrol and Girls allowed. How could anyone hate them? I haven’t got any punk or metal stuff they would like but actually, when they’d had some cider they were dancing along happily to ‘Mamma Mia’ with us, no probs. Even though they’re Emos, they are still like human."