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I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.

- Jenny Eclair

Very, Absolute, Slob, Schizophrenic

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 just come along and look after me.

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Thought, Proper, Skip, Pension

My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

- Jenny Eclair

Perfect, Older Sister, Am, Bossy

For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.

- Jenny Eclair

Woman, Audience, Maybe, Breed

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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England, Could, Realised, Five-Year-Old

I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

- Jenny Eclair

Week, More, Afterwards, Pathological

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.

- Jenny Eclair

Basket, Very, Gaga, Platforms

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

- Jenny Eclair

TV, About, Folk, Snobby

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.

- Jenny Eclair

Meant, Spiritual Person, Abide

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

- Jenny Eclair

Think, I Think, Incredibly, Ostentation

I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.

- Jenny Eclair

Think, I Think, Weirder, Mighty

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

- Jenny Eclair

Never, Been, Keel, Highs

The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.

- Jenny Eclair

Level, Before, Pleasantly, Sheets

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

- Jenny Eclair

People, Admire, Back, Camp

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

- Jenny Eclair

Education, Been, Very, Teenager

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

- Jenny Eclair

Think, Some, I Think, Respects

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

- Jenny Eclair

Very, Having, Particularly, Highly

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.

- Jenny Eclair

Love, Strong, Always, Strong Sense

There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

- Jenny Eclair

Bad, Like, Boo, Booing

Women are more emotional, and it's natural to talk about it.

- Jenny Eclair

Natural, Emotional, More, Women Are

If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

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Want, Some, Beaten, Shade

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.

- Jenny Eclair

Got, Knees, Dad, Inherited

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.

- Jenny Eclair

Doing, Other, Anybody, Upsets

I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

- Jenny Eclair

Career, Only, Very, Solo

I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.

- Jenny Eclair

Think, Within, I Think, Sibling

People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.

- Jenny Eclair

Worry, Reason, Will, Harder

I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

- Jenny Eclair

Like, Very, Am, Situation

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.

- Jenny Eclair

Good, Will, Makes, Joke

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

- Jenny Eclair

Love, I Remember, Badly, Young Age

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

- Jenny Eclair

Good, Never, Been, Moderation

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