THEY SAID WHAT?

“One of the best things about this part is, when you get to my age, the first thing I do is look at the end and usually I either die or I go senile. It’s very seldom that I get parts where they end on a positive note, or even a half-positive note, or continue to exist. They have to be tragic”

– Actress Sheila Hancock, 85, enjoys her role in new film, Edie.

“I’ve been alone less than three hours. I’m late to work, slightly covered in baby milk, OK baby vomit, my son is furious about his packed lunch - don’t ask - and my wife is away for three days. This hasn’t started well”

– Tory MP Tom Tugendhat struggles to cope during his wife’s

absence on business.

“Once I got into a black cab right after voting and the driver said ‘Do all the MPs have such pretty PAs these days?”’

– Labour MP Tulip Siddiq. “I’m awful. I don’t play it, I don’t watch it. I was probably the worst casting choice they could have made in that regard”

– Teenage actor Brenock O’Connor, above, who has a footballing role in a new film, The Bromley Boys.

“I couldn’t give a flying flamingo about the opinions of A Neil, Esquire”

– Commons Speaker John Bercow after broadcaster Andrew Neil had referred to the length of Prime Minister’s Questions under his tenure.

“I have been working for more than 50 years, and plan to go on doing so, both because I can’t think what else to do with my time and because I need the money. I have another half-century of work ahead of me. I don’t mind”

– Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth.