THEY SAID WHAT?

“If you spread your legs because a man said ‘Be nice to me and I’ll give you a job in a movie’ then I’m afraid that’s tantamount to consent, and it’s too late to start whingeing about that”

- Feminist Germaine Greer.

“The organisers of this event chose to exclude women guests, they chose to treat the hostesses like this. The whole thing stinks. The Presidents Club can’t just wash their hands of responsibility for the appalling sexism, groping and harassment this investigation found”

- Labour MP Yvette Cooper on allegations of groping and sexual harassment at a charity dinner at the Dorchester Hotel in London.

“It’s quite a schizophrenic world we live in”

- Actress Cate Blanchett.

“We trot up and down those bloody carpets like circus ponies, time after time, and everyone is fed up of it, never mind the sexual harassment aspect of it all” - Actress Emma Thompson, above, saying the Hollywood awards season is too long.

“I can be very evil. It comes from inside”

- Actor Peter Bowles.

“As long as I’m vertical ... and as long as people ask me to do it” - TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough when asked how long he expects to continue working.

“Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you”

- TV’s Jeremy Clarkson.