10 Celebrity quotes

1 DOLLY PARTON

“I am not a dumb country girl.”

2 DANNY BAKER

“I don’t think channels should buy up other channels’ programmes like swaggering football clubs.” (on the move of The Great British Bake Off to Channel 4)

3 RENEE ZELLWEGER

“Adulthood is a myth. I’m still 19, really. I haven’t grown up.”

4 SADIE FROST

“I’m a tough person. I think as you get older you have to be realistic, so I don’t indulge in crying.”

5 JILLY COOPER

“No-one will love you as much as your dog.”

6 ANNE HATHAWAY

“Shape is an ongoing thing in everybody’s life, so I’m not trying to recapture something that was. I am going with what it is now.”

7 JEREMY IRONS

“Nowadays you have to sell your soul for it, fly around everywhere and buy everyone flowers.” (on what he claims you have to do now to win an Oscar)

8 ED BALLS

“I am not going into this to do what Ann Widdecombe did, to become a comedy act. I am going to try to do better.” (on Strictly)

9 GRAYSON PERRY

“My wife picks all my clothes for me – but only when I am dressing as a man.” (on cross-dressing)

10 GILLIAN ANDERSON

“I think in Europe in general there is a sense that women who age naturally can be beautiful.”