Quotes by Jenny Eclair

About Jenny Eclair:

Jenny Eclair is an English comedian, novelist and actor, best known for her roles in Grumpy Old Women between 2004 and 2007 and in Loose Women in 2011 and 2012.
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I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would ...

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I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.

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I am best viewed from a distance.

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I am best viewed from a distance... and at night.

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The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.

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Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

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After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

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I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

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I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

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I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

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I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

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A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.

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Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.

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What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

Jenny Eclair

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

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I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

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As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

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I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

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My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.

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I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise.

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Author Bio

  • NameJenny Eclair
  • DescriptionEnglish comedienne
  • BornMarch 16, 1960
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Comedian