Victoria Wood

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.