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“My theory was that if I behaved like a confident, cheerful person, eventually I would buy it myself, and become that. I always had traces of strength somewhere inside me, it wasn't fake, it was just a way of summoning my courage to the fore and not letting any creeping self-doubt hinder my adventures. This method worked then, and it works now. I tell myself that I am the sort of person who can open a one-woman play in the West End, so I do. I am the sort of person who has several companies, so I do. I am the sort of person WHO WRITES A BOOK! So I do. It's the process of having faith in the self you don't quite know you are yet, if you see what I mean. Believing that you will find the strength, the means somehow, and trusting in that, although your legs are like jelly. You can still walk on them and you will find the bones as you walk. Yes, that's it. The further I walk, the stronger I become. So unlike the real lived life, where the further you walk, the more your hips hurt.”
― Dawn French, Dear Fatty

“Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman”
― Dawn French, A Tiny Bit Marvellous

“There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies come in all shapes, colours, sizes and types, they don't have to be fluffy. They can be demanding and furious if hey like. They do, however, have to wear a tiara. That much is compulsory.”
― Dawn French, A Tiny Bit Marvellous

“That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters that you can find some things to like about it. Even if that means having a good laugh at the bits of it that wobble independently, occasionally, that’s all right. It might take you a while to believe me on this one, lots of people don’t because they seem to suffer from self-hatred that precludes them from imagining that a big woman could ever love herself because they don’t. But I do. I know what I’ve got is a bit strange and difficult to love but those are the very aspects that I love the most! It’s a bit like people. I’ve never been particularly attracted to the uniform of conventional beauty. I’m always a bit suspicious of people who feel compelled to conform. I personally like the adventure of difference. And what’s beauty, anyway?”
― Dawn French, Dear Fatty

“What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.”
― Dawn French, A Tiny Bit Marvellous

“Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

“It's not that I don't like my mum's face; it's just that it belongs on her, not me.”
― Dawn French, A Tiny Bit Marvellous

“....get a move on, pal, life goes on happening while you're hiding....”
― Dawn French, According to Yes

“I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.”
― Dawn French

“Never was there a creature more appropriately placed to be the poster girl for euthanasia.”
― Dawn French, A Tiny Bit Marvellous

“She didn't know that I was dead inside, that I had ruled out the chance of joy ever again. Of that night and every other night to follow. I had fully settled into my unhappiness and wore it comfortably. So comfortably in fact, that it was barely perceptible to others. It just fitted me so well. My suit of misery hung happily on me. So happily that she assumed I could have "a lovely night" in it. The loveliness she referred to was so extremely far out of reach for me. It as far as... the bloody moon.”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

“For the first time ever, I was alone in a different country. I was nervous about how I was going to cope in this big bustling city and so I employed a technique which still serves me well today. I imagined myself as someone who relished new exciting opportunities, who was utterly unafraid and perpetually optimistic. It was a kind of reinvention. Everyone I met was new. These people didn't know me, there was no shared history, so I could be anything or anyone I wanted to be. My theory was that if I behaved like a confident, cheerful person, eventually I would buy it myself, and become that. I always had traces of strength somewhere inside me, it wasn't fake. It was just a way of summoning my courage to the fore and not letting any creeping self-doubt hinder my adventures. This method worked then, and it works now.”
― Dawn French, Dear Fatty

“I offered her the benefit of my company this New Year's Eve, but informed her that as of midnight I should much like to insist that she refers to me as Master Oscar at all times. For that is whom I am, and I can't stress enough the importance of being Oscar.”
― Dawn French, A Tiny Bit Marvellous

“She didnt know that i was dead inside, that i had ruled out the chance of joy ever again. For that night and every night to follow. I had fully settled into my unhappiness and wore it comfortably”
― dawn french, Oh Dear Silvia

“Emos don't dance much to our music. They actually hate snow patrol and Girls allowed. How could anyone hate them? I haven't got any punk or metal stuff they would like but actually, when they'd had some cider they were dancing along happily to 'Mamma Mia' with us, no probs. Even though they're Emos, they are still like human.”
― Dawn French, A Tiny Bit Marvellous

“What in the name of fanny?!”
― Dawn French, Dear Fatty

“waving”
― Dawn French, Dear Fatty: The hilarious and heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians

“make”
― Dawn French, Because of You

“But tarry a while, haste is the arch-enemy of delight.”
― Dawn French, A Tiny Bit Marvellous

“a.m. for about an hour, tops. That’s when they could keep their promise and, to their credit, they never broke it. Hope was sorry that she couldn’t rely on her mum and dad for babysitting”
― Dawn French, Because of You

“it ate away at me when i was already full of holes”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

“We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y'know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself to it just as we promised, "for better or worse", and you didn't see it like that.”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

“Now, he numbly stands stock-still, in abject fear that this whole catastrophe may well be his doing.”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

“I am genuinely dull. Duller than the world's dullest-ever thing, so dull it's not worth the time it takes to imagine it.”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

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― Dawn French

“I was so blue that I felt I'd turned black inside.”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

“that she wasn’t ‘allowed’, which”
― Dawn French, Dear Fatty: The hilarious and heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians

“but it really hurt, so she”
― Dawn French, Because of You