Top 55 Mel Giedroyc Quotes

My siblings and I have got the worst teeth in Britain.

Normally we go in, we do a series and then that’s it, we’re axed!

My daughters have become little judges. If I do produce a baked item, they tut at the soggy bottom and advise me to try harder next time.

I’m the youngest of four in a large, exhibitionist family. The only way to get attention was to throw yourself off the top of a ladder – as one of my cousins used to do – or make people laugh.

There have been a lot of technical advances in the bra industry over the years, (such as those with Cellophane straps that are supposed to look as if you’re not wearing them), but the maternity bra is still stuck in the 1940s.

I’m not on Twitter because I’m worried I’d be really dull, which would be tragic for someone who’s supposed to be funny.

I got into Cambridge and it all went downhill.

This business is fickle. You have very good patches and less good patches, but you learn to ride them out. As long as you don’t take yourself too seriously, you’ll be fine. When you lose sight of that, you’re in trouble.

I like Joan Jett’s ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll’ because it’s got a nice low singing voice.

I’m very competitive about puns.

I don’t want to take things for granted.

Hate showers, they’re weird.

It’s a blessing to be able to do different things really, I feel so lucky.

I love a bit of Saturday-night TV.

People can now get to see anything they want, in any shape or form, anywhere, on laptop, iPad or ‘phone. What’s not controllable, though, is the live element. So there’s still a real thrill for TV viewers in watching actors pulling it all together and performing live, and a real challenge for the actors.

Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.

We have our detractors. If we didn’t, that would be weird. That would make me feel, ‘Oh God, we must be really bland.’ You have to have detractors.

I’m really proud of ‘The Gift.’ There are stories we can all relate to – a first love that went wrong, a person who bullied us at school, a kind person we took for granted.

Funders, financiers why don’t you support childcare? Make it a budget line in your productions and please please let’s not be ageist.

I don’t have a problem with the concept of a box set per se – we have many of them merrily lined up on the shelf above the telly. No, what gives me the pip is the fact that I’m never going to watch any of them.

There are different types of double act: the classic dumb-and-dumber, like Morecambe and Wise; the good cop/bad cop, where one’s a bit spiky and the other’s daft. Sue Perkins and I take what we might call the Ant and Dec approach: the double act came out of our friendship.

It’s a very basic, simple idea, isn’t it – saying thank you, saying sorry – and in the overcomplicated, over-busy world we live in it is very powerful.

We human beings are very dark, strange things.

I feel very lucky. ‘Bake Off’ has opened more doors for me. I was so delighted to get the job.

The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on ‘The Gift.’

Noel Fielding is a friend of mine and I love what he does.

I’m not a trained actor, so there was always going to be a certain amount of bringing my own… I was going to say skills but they’re not really skills, it’s just stuff that I know how to do I suppose.

It’s often the guests you don’t expect to be interesting who are the best. On ‘Light Lunch,’ I remember a guest called Ivor Spencer. He was the Royal Toastmaster and he was great, a real good-time guy.

Eurovision’ lifts you off your feet – and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.

There is something a bit volatile about hosting a big live show like ‘Eurovision.’ Anything could literally happen.

Christmas traditions are important in my family. Being half English and half Polish-Lithuanian, we have two separate celebrations.

There is surely a finite amount of European baked goods, isn’t there?

I don’t like it when people lie about their age.

I’ve always done stuff on stage, so it feels very natural.

I love them all, there is not one member of Take That that I do not love.

I think if you’re 50 you just ruddy say it.

Of course there’s pressure on you whatever timeslot you’re doing, but I think there’s more pressure on you as you go into the evening and I think being tucked away in a nice teatime arena feels quite nice.

I would not describe myself as the best Catholic – I’m a bit of a cherry-picker. I like the community of it.

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

I’ve never seen ‘Light Lunch’ – only clips. But I do remember from those clips that there was a lot of bounding about and energy and I think that’s probably slightly lessened over the years.

At Trinity College there was a coterie of the poshest of the posh, people you didn’t ever see, they were so posh. They went to each other’s rooms and, at weekends, each other’s estates. I preferred to be with the weirdo bunch of raggle-taggle thesps.

Every year the British public are so generous. It is really moving living in Britain. Fundraising is something we do tremendously well.

Family is everything to me.

We love live because of the roughness round the edges, the excitement, the madness, and stuff going off on all sorts of weird tangents. It’s like hosting a jolly in your house. We’re welcoming people in and giving them snacks.

Performing on radio is great, you roll up with no makeup in pyjamas and nobody will know.

For me, Christmas was always about presents. As a child, we each had an allotted place in the sitting room for the ceremonial unwrapping and mine was perched beside the telly on a Moroccan pouffe. We would watch our mum with bated breath as she divided up the gifts.

Mum was in her early 50s when she had four strokes in quick succession that almost took her off. I’d just come down from Cambridge with a rubbish degree. I spent a year reading to her – her eyesight was badly affected – and making sure she got proper rest. It was a special time but very intense, too.

When you have a baby in showbiz, people think you’ve died.

My kids both had Catholic junior school education, which I’m really glad for – it taught them how to be compassionate, how to be kind.

I met Sue Perkins at the Footlights, where she brought the house down at the auditions.

Believe me, you don’t want to play to an audience of seven in a village hall in Cumbernauld.

We would pay for our own shows, we would put them on, we did everything ourselves, so I’ve always totally loved being on a stage in front of an audience, that is where I feel most happy really.

I feel very warmly and joyfully towards BBC Children in Need.

I had to go to an audition for a rather large West End musical set on a Greek island. I didn’t realise that you had to go with sheet music to give to the pianist. I took a Mark Bolan CD, a small ghetto blaster and then sang along. It was absolutely appalling.