THEY SAID WHAT?

“I once said blithely that when I finished being an MP I was going to form an old people’s robbery group. Everybody ignores old people so we could shoplift and burgle till the cows come home” – actress and ex-Labour MP

Glenda Jackson

“If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman’s background, the more primitive her bedchamber” – writer and editor Rowan Pelling

“I’m like the lowest life form. I think if I disappeared one day, my wife and kids wouldn’t even notice – until it was time to put gas in the car in the freezing cold” – actor Alec Baldwin on his status in the family

“What is it about people who repair shoes that makes them so good at cutting keys?”

– comedian Harry Hill, pictured

“To drop Easter from Cadbury’s Easter Egg Hunt in my book is tantamount to spitting on the grave of the Quaker John Cadbury who founded the company in 1824” – Archbishop of York

Dr John Sentamu

“Never in my lifetime has there been a more exciting, a more unpredictable or, indeed, a more unsettling time in politics. The people who lead us and the ideas they promote are no longer limited by the suffocating straitjacket of what established parties or respected pundits deem to be possible or acceptable or sellable” – former BBC political editor

Nick Robinson

“Do not ever quit out of fear of rejection” – Harry Potter creator JK Rowling’s advice to young writers