I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding’s and it was really interesting and so prettily written and lovely and not too revealing. I went to her book launch and met her editor who said ‘why don’t you think about it? You can do it however you want, based on your characters or you.’ Jennifer Saunders Read Quote
I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd. Jennifer Saunders Read Quote
Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don’t watch telly – only old people do. Jennifer Saunders Read Quote
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. Jennifer Saunders Read Quote
Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world. Jennifer Saunders Read Quote
When I was a child, a lot of my time was spent in Scotland because my mother’s Scottish, and we used to go up to Ayrshire and visit relations in a place called Dalry. Jennifer Saunders Read Quote
My daughters related to something in the Spice Girls that made them feel better about being female. They truly started to believe girls could do anything. They could be fat, thin, anything they wanted to be. Jennifer Saunders Read Quote
Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous. Jennifer Saunders Read Quote