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Dawn French

"If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush."

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"If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush."

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"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."
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"In actual life I am a grumpy old bag."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."
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"I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it."
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"I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up."
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