Celebrity quotes

1 DAME HELEN MIRREN

“I like a funny ghost story, Ghostbusters or that sort of thing, but horror films I cannot deal with at all.”

2 TONY BENNETT

“I’m just starting out.” (on winning a Grammy at 91)

3 STEVIE NICKS

“He was one of my best friends. My heart will never get over this.” (on the death of Tom Petty)

4 JAMES CORDEN

“My major ambition is to stay relevant.”

5 KELLY BROOK

“Now I’m in my late 30s, I wish I thought more about having children earlier. I do feel like now I’m kind of up against it.”

6 KIRSTY YOUNG

“I always try to walk in the fresh air afterwards. Recordings can often be a little, shall we say, intense.” (on her Desert Island Discs routine)

7 BILL BAILEY

“I’m a post-modern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically.”

8 GERARD BUTLER

“No matter how many times I do the American accent, I can never give it as much as when I’m just myself, so it will be fun to get a chance to just speak like I spent 30 years of my life speaking.” (on his Scottish accent)

9 JAY-Z

“Now we have Donald Trump, the superbug.”

10 CYNDI LAUPER

“We say time’s up for pay inequality, time’s up for discrimination, time’s up for harassment, of any kind. And time’s up for the abuse of power.”