THEY SAID WHAT?

“I had some horrible experiences as a young dancer in New York City. I mean I’ll top all of them. I think it has to do with narcissism, an ability to think that they’re invincible and they pretty much can do whatever they want to do” - Hollywood star Goldie Hawn, below, on sexual harassment.

“Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world”

- Actress Jennifer Saunders.

“I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema”

- Actress Brenda Blethyn.

“My feeling is that I’ve got absolutely no chance of winning but I will always be an Academy Award nominee and they can’t take that away from me. It’s strange, I’m 61, I’ve been acting since I was 16. I have a very full and wonderful career. It takes quite a lot to make me feel that it’s getting any better, because it’s already fantastic. But this is extraordinary”

- Actress Lesley Manville on receiving an Oscar nomination at

the age of 61.

“I think I can promise that it will be edgy, from the heart and from the head!” - Cambridge classicist Mary Beard, who is to present the forthcoming series of the TV programme Front Row.

“I don’t like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don’t like you and that’s all there is to it”

- Comedian Jack Dee.