Victoria Wood Quotes

• My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold – You can’t have a masseur called Harold. It’s like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena.

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• Jogging is for people who aren’t intelligent enough to watch Breakfast TV.

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• In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

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  Tags in Girl, Fat, Agent

• Music enriches people’s lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

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• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don’t know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

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• I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry.

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• I sometimes think that being widowed is God’s way of telling you to come off the Pill.

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  Tags in Pill, Widowed, Telling

• All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn’t want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

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• Acting is not my favourite thing. I don’t like wearing costumes and wigs.

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• I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

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• In London it’s easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

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• My mother, she didn’t believe in praise. She’d never say anything was great. I think that’s quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn’t mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn’t bother me. I was never trying to please her.

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• I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I’ve got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won’t bear any relation to what’s in your head and that’s always disappointing.

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  Tags in Disappointing, Gets

• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It’s only when you act as if you’re someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

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• Sexual harassment at work… is it a problem for the self-employed?

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• A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

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• I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

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• I haven’t got a waist. I’ve just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

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• I know I’ve got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I’ve got a lifesaving certificate but I don’t spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

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• Life’s not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

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Victoria Wood (24)

Birth:	19th May, 1953
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Comedian, Screenwriter, Singer, Television Director

About

Victoria Wood is an English comedian, actor, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live comedy act is interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanies on piano.

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