Celebrity quotes

1 KYLIE MINOGUE

“When I started out, I hadn’t had much tragedy in my life – apart from bad hairdos.”

2 SARA COX

“At school I was quite awkward, I got teased for long skinny legs, big lips. Now I think, here I still am with long legs and big lips; that didn’t turn out so badly.”

3 JOHNNY VEGAS

“I’ve got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather like an egg on legs.”

4 JANE SEYMOUR

“Having been semi-nude in Playboy, I might strip fully naked when I’m 80.”

5 THE PRINCE OF WALES

“Never again will it be possible to squeeze into a pair of budgie smugglers.” (on approaching 70)

6 DAME HELEN MIRREN

“I have got nothing against marriage. It just wasn’t to my taste – like turnips.” (explaining why she waited 12 years to marry partner Taylor Hackford)

7 SIR BILLY CONNOLLY

“I’m the least patriotic man in the world. I do love Scotland, but if the love for your country is all you have, you’re in a desperate state.”

8 BRYAN CRANSTON

“The idea that older white men are controlling the world is over.”

9 SARAH MONTAGUE

“I was incandescent with rage.” (on learning she was paid less than her Today programme colleagues)

10 TRACEY EMIN

“If men aren’t going to change their attitudes, nothing will ever change.”