10 Celebrity quotes

1 SIR SEAN CONNERY

“My devotion to golf is the nearest I have ever come to religion.”

2 BRIAN BLESSED

“I just love myself. I am very deeply in love with myself.”

3 KIM CATTRALL

“My male friends don’t seem to have any feelings of intimidation that I am a 100-watt sex bomb standing next to them.”

4 EMILY MAITLIS

“I am rubbish with babies. I need things that can speak.”

5 THE QUEEN

“Stand up, William.” (telling off the crouching Duke of Cambridge on the balcony of Buckingham Palace)

6 TIM PEAKE

“The smells of the Earth are so strong. It’s just wonderful to feel the fresh air.”

7 RUPERT EVERETT

“I really wanted to be a girl. Thank God the world of now wasn’t then, because I’d be on hormones and I’d be a woman.”

8 JANE HORROCKS

“I relish my smallness. I really like my smallness.”

9 SINEAD O’CONNOR

“I don’t like people saying I look good because I’m skinny. I don’t like words like ‘good’ or ‘bad’ being associated with female weight.”

10 MIRIAM MARGOLYES

“I should have lost weight when I was younger. I’m a fat woman and to be 75 and fat is just stupid.”