98 Quotes by Jenny Eclair

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.

I’ve never been prudish.

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

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.

I’ve got a hat face. My mother always said I’ve got a hat face.

I don’t think I’m successful.

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I’m quite camp in that respect.

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.

I can’t stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.