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My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.

- Dawn French

College, Every Day, Other, Phone

I am a rubbish flirt.

- Dawn French

I Am, Rubbish, Am, Flirt

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

- Dawn French

Stairs, Own, My Own, Nick

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

- Dawn French

Decide, Parody, Which, Owing

I'm constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, 'Well, this is bloody weird', you can get through everything.

- Dawn French

Life, Through, Astounded, Stages

I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people.

- Dawn French

Love, Makes, I Love, Attracts

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

- Dawn French

Father, Precious, Dad, Precious Thing

That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that.

- Dawn French

Big, Like, Pants, Bra

I'm not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it's not sweet enough for my sweet tooth.

- Dawn French

Alcohol, Big, Drinking, Hardly

I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.

- Dawn French

Slim, I Write, Bit, Scripts

Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.

- Dawn French

Turn, Feel, Your, Telly

I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

- Dawn French

Love, Pleasure, Like, Telly

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

- Dawn French

Drama, Like, Worked, Struggle

The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.

- Dawn French

Body, Understand, Weight, Only Time

I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.

- Dawn French

Life, My Life, Am, Jolly

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

- Dawn French

My Life, Other, Badly, Life Story

That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.

- Dawn French

Shame, About, Weird Thing, Regular

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

- Dawn French

Over, Visiting, Devon, Cornwall

I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.

- Dawn French

Grow, Like, Though, Lesbian

Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

- Dawn French

Play, Show, Influential, None

My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

- Dawn French

Learn, Timing, Very, Open

Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.

- Dawn French

Think, Meant, Means, Middle-Aged

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

- Dawn French

Myself, Never, Self-Esteem, Disliked

I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

- Dawn French

Think, Through, Otherwise, Apart

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

- Dawn French

About, Area, Lives, Thin

My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.

- Dawn French

Famous, Like, Virtually, Allergic

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

- Dawn French

Think, Like, I Think, As Far As

Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

- Dawn French

Civility, Other, Otherwise, Divorce

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

- Dawn French

Myself, Been, Rather, Shell

I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?

- Dawn French

Loved, Always, Kissing

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