Words matter. These are the best Sue Perkins Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You build up coming out to this horrible moment. It’s so stressful, there’s so much adrenaline, and there’s so much primal fear – even though I know my parents to be good people – that they’re going to reject you.
I’m not very good when I’m given scripts.
When it started, ‘Bake Off’ wasn’t a big hit. Respect to the people who said, ‘We’ll keep commissioning this and give it a chance.’
I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens’s books work for me.
Let’s face it: I’m not a looker. I’m a scruff. But I have embraced my scruffiness. We’re happy together.
By making the gay character funny and sweet but above all normal, you make a far better, longer lasting statement than you would if you had an entirely gay comedy.
I’m very impatient.
I don’t have it in my personality to be frightened of things.
I always like to think that I’m accountable for everything I do, but I’ll never understand how I did some of the things that I did.
Whatever the critics make of ‘Maestro,’ I hope they don’t call it a reality show.
Being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me.
‘Bleak House’ remains a great novel for me, and I love ‘David Copperfield.’
You’re never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They’re completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher taste: it hasn’t got that bass-note beefiness.
Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.
I love watching birds of prey and stags.
I have only really been able to ever intuit my sexuality through love.
I’d like to live permanently in October 1988, when I started college. I had no responsibility and the energy to do whatever I wanted. My optimism wasn’t dented by experience or low self-esteem.
You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They’re not for sale.
I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession – either as a doctor or nurse or vet.
I’d have worked with an orchestra, been a chef, or a zoo keeper.
I am an appalling softie. But somehow, somewhere along the line, I’ve learnt how to hide it.
I’m not fashionable.
A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an audience, and the mercurial brilliance of a host of musicians, and shape them all to his or her interpretative ends.
I like ’24.’ But I have to wait until it comes out, then watch it all in 24 hours. You really let yourself go in that one day; you just eat crisps and wander around madly ranting.
I don’t really drink, but the one thing I really hanker after is Zubrowka vodka. If it’s someone’s birthday, I’ll pretend I like red wine for about three sips.
Dogs are fur repositories for everything you can’t say to humans.
I sent an ex of mine an enormous oil painting of me as a housewarming gift. It was one of the most elaborate and time-consuming practical jokes I’ve ever done.
We all belong to a tribe. You might be a religious or a family person – that’s your tribe.
As a child, I was awkward, fidgety, and shy, with a total inability to concentrate, and in that regard, I’m exactly the same as an adult.
I have a freelancer’s mentality: if I leave the country for more than 24 hours on a non-work trip, I believe I will never be employed again.
It’s always a treat for me to go to the British Library.
I’d never been one for leaving the comforts of home. That person wasn’t me; I didn’t spend my formative years youth-hostelling round Rwanda or climbing Everest in a tie-dye playsuit to raise awareness of something or other.
Food attracts a kind of nerdishness like any other sort of passion, and ‘Cooks’ Questions’ is for those people who want to find out more.
I’ve always thrown myself into love in a rather carefree way, and the net result is that you do get hurt. But I wouldn’t take away any of the experiences of my life.
It’s so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.
I’ve learnt how to develop routines. To play with each bit. To enjoy expanding on it. To get used to the stage being mine.
I’m always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.
Parents care deeply.
I’d love to see Kate Bush, full stop.
If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you’re heading for disaster.
It was a privilege to experience life beyond the cliches and to witness the vibrancy, chaos, and multiculturalism of Bengal first hand.
Because I’m busy, I don’t sit down to a lot of big formal meals – unless I’ve got mates round, in which case I’ll cook something.
I make no bones about the fact that I’m over 40.
I don’t think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it’s like to feel odd.
I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I’m very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.
Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn’t necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and relationships, and those are ongoing.
I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.
I’m desperate to be in the same room as Katie Hopkins. There are a few things I’d like to say to her, really calmly. I’d just like to put forward a case for her to integrate the ‘her’ that she pretends to be on TV with the ‘her’ she is as a real person.
I’d really like to see Mary Berry busting out a Pitbull number!
Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.
I don’t understand people who travel purely gastronomically, who book a Michelin-starred restaurant three months in advance and suddenly find themselves in Copenhagen or Barcelona with a zeitgeist plate of snail porridge.
Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.
When I was 18, I went to the East Coast of America, got mugged, and came straight home.
As an adult, the obsessive dynamics of self-employment meant it was impossible for me to take a break. What would happen if I disappeared for a week or two? I would be forgotten. Forever. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would, doubtless, present itself – and I would miss the chance to seize it.
Music is where I’m still. It’s where I’m focused. It’s such a joy. I’d like to make it a big part of my life.
Long hair doesn’t look good on me because my hair is fine.
I’m a passionate person; there’s a lot going on underneath my carousel of blazers: a cauldron of sensitivity and emotion.
I’m a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.
I am happier with my face since I started wearing glasses at 27, because they punctuate it. They also hide one of my biggest defects, my baggy eyes.
People have tried to glam me up over the years, but it just doesn’t work.
With comedy, it’s not always a blessing to be beautiful because part of it is self-parody and gurning.
The only time I am not talking is when I am dancing. I look like an electrocuted octopus.
My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood, but it’s a great way to start a conversation.
Sometimes I get into the mindset that being heterosexual is a brave new world, because you can conceive, and you work out the rest of it once you’re pregnant.
In Hebrew, the name Susan means ‘graceful lily’ – in Khmer, it means ‘girl with the bad puns,’ and in ancient Aztec, it translates as ‘she with the cockerel hair and dirty glasses.’
I don’t want my life to just be about me.
I’m a good cook, but I can’t bake.
My idea of hell is to sit with a pair of curling tongs or have my hair blow-dried: I fidget like a 12-year-old boy.
I don’t look great. I’m a bit ramshackle.
The great thing about ageing is that your eyesight deteriorates at the same rate as your face. So I can’t see how bad things are getting.