Top 60 Claudia Winkleman Quotes

When I want to feel especially grateful, I think about the early days dressing up as an orange for Fruit Awareness Week.

When you’re down and have just split up from your partner everyone says you have to move forward. ‘Get on with your life,’ ‘It’s time to meet someone new,’ and ‘Don’t think about the past’ are phrases you’ll hear for at least six months after the horrible event.

I’m confident without make-up on and I only wear it for work.

Now people who keep fish disturb me the most, if I’m totally honest. They always smell a bit like fish food and they know just a bit too much about eels.

I won a robotics championship when I was 13.

There’s no doubt a bit of chicken in a creamy mushroom sauce with a side order of garlic mash will put a smile on your face.

The only thing I’m obsessed with is sleeping. I’m really good at it and if I don’t do it I’m horrible.

On ‘Richard And Judy’ I dressed up as an orange for Fruit Awareness Week.

I don’t have any secrets; I don’t believe in secrets.

Ads are cool.

I don’t like ads: I’m too susceptible. I find myself in the supermarket buying Ronseal, and I don’t even have a shed.

I had a go with Botox but looked both scared and surprised at the same time. I don’t like to be either.

Even when my mum used to edit the paper she would come home, put us to bed and then go back to the office. She must have been exhausted. She worked on Sunday papers so I always had her on Mondays. I loved Mondays! She would always be waiting for me outside school. I remember feeling very loved.

I don’t think I’d get employed if I did pastel eye and a side parting. People would say: ‘Get someone else for the job!’

My mum raised me in a home without mirrors. She’s a staunch feminist and wanted us to know that what we look like is the least interesting thing about us.

Being hummed at by someone with magic hands while they knead your neck is good for the soul, but it won’t make you giggle for days afterwards. In fact, the second the smiley therapist stops and says, ‘You can put your robe on now, the hour is up,’ the joy and wonder sort of leaves the room.

I used to spend hours reading the Sunday papers, but then I had 900 children so I don’t any more.

If I could grow my fringe down to my shoulders to cover my entire face and occasionally peer out to answer questions I would. It’s my beauty security blanket.

You’ve never met anyone who likes Christmas more than me. I go quite Liberace. My kids have all got stick-on antlers.

I like small actors. They are my absolute favourite.

I’ve never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I’m not.

If a straight man dresses well, chances are he’s not straight.

There’s no fun in relationships. OK – that’s not strictly true. I will agree that the first bit can be not totally unpleasant. There’s the initial meeting and the heart quickening and the stomach-churning excitement of it all.

My kids are the offspring of people who are doing reasonably well and live in the centre of London and the chances are they’re going to turn out ghastly anyway. Who’s to say they shouldn’t have a walk-in wardrobe and possibly a stylist from the age of four?

I think I was born aged about 86.

Top-flight football players are a strange bunch.

I don’t work very hard. I dye myself orange and I read out loud in the months from September to December when ‘Strictly’ is on.

Things I am allergic to: people who believe in star signs and think nothing of starting a conversation with: ‘Hi, my name’s Lucy. I’m a Sagittarius;’ rodents (apart from miniature hamsters, which are not in fact rodents but small, breathing, brown balls of cotton wool); and people who go to the gym.

I share a birthday with Max Beesley and James Nesbitt.

Facebook, I’m learning, is like a man. You have to be smiley and fun and witty but sometimes you have to play it cool and just ignore it for a couple of hours.

I was a sucker for glamorous women in shoulderpads eating fancy things like eggs benedict.

I’ve never knowingly taken my make-up off. The stuff you see me in I first put on in the 70s.

I prefer to stick to my old-lady goth/Steve Tyler look. I’ve found my look – white lipstick, black eyeliner, black clothes.

If you asked 100 women on the street who they’d like to be, I’m sure most of them would say Kirsty Wark or Germaine Greer. Yawn. Do me a favour – they’re lying.

I’d take Tom Hollander over Brad Pitt any day.

The character of Samantha Jones proved that women over the age of 40 could be magnificently sexy and attractive to men of all ages.

I never take my makeup off.

I love that ageing rocker look, dressed in black and looking like you slept in your make-up.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they’re the best at anything – presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

It’s deep in the south of India and next to Goa, but thankfully the folk who like Goa haven’t worked out that Kerala is a lot nicer and just next door. You do feel that you are discovering somewhere entirely new in Kerala. It makes you feel like you are on a totally different planet.

I don’t want to be doing anything else, I just want to be with my family.

I watch ‘Question Time’ religiously.

I am allergic to fancy dress. This is actual fact.

I have always been a little bit forgetful.

I like cookery shows much more than my husband, so I put them on the minute he goes away.

Once, when I was 14 I thought easily the most glamorous thing was white eyeliner inside the eye and then heavy lip liner round the mouth. I think I looked repellent.

Sex and the City: The Movie’ – a bit like the All Saints comeback, and the return of the Jammy Dodger, it feels a little staged and all wrong.

Weddings happen once. That’s the point. They’re a bluster of confetti and hope all wrapped up in sticky wedding cake and four-year-old girls in big dresses with massive bows.

Be completely honest – have you ever met someone who you thought was truly clever or interesting or witty who wore fawn?

All my life, I have avoided any sort of exercise. I don’t enjoy sweating and I think people who show off about having just done 20 press-ups are pretty weird.

Seriously, Jamie Cullum could be the smallest person on the planet. He might be lovely and charming and you might think we all should spend more time talking about his piano-playing techniques but, seriously, have you seen how short he is?

My twenties were painful. You had to go out to nightclubs. I love not having to pretend to enjoy those things anymore.

Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.

Who actually enjoys skiing? Come on, even Olympic ski masters, even James Bond, think that dressing up in all that fluorescent, insulated kit and having to manoeuvre down a mountain in the freezing cold is no way to spend leisure time.

I’m not sure a pretty and stupid man might be the key to a happy relationship.

I can’t stand people who say they’ve got ‘Africa fatigue.’

Indeed, ‘Sex and the City’ highlighted the importance of female friendships, and showed the world that it was hip to be single.

I avoid envy at all costs.

I am allergic to sweating. Seriously I get in shape by lying down.

I loved ‘Life is Beautiful’ and action films are great, like ‘Die Hard.’ My favourite is the mob film – ‘Goodfellas,’ ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Once Upon a Time In America,’ anything with Robert De Niro in it.