THEY SAID WHAT?

“There are personalities like that around the world. It’s that kind of big personality: the ego, the money, the deals and the philandering. I am talking about bigger-than-life personalities. Like JR, it’s all about the deal – how can we do this? How can we manoeuvre this?”

Dallas star Linda Gray likens US

President Donald Trump to JR Ewing, the villain of the US soap “I have great sympathy for Theresa May’s plight and I think the way she is being treated by some of her colleagues is absolutely outrageous.”

Sir John Major, former Tory

prime minister “Many people may think that, though the short-term impact of Brexit will be severe, we will swiftly recover. The pain will go on for a long time and will only be reduced by radical measures of deregulation and cost saving.”

Former prime minister Tony Blair “I don’t want it to be a hip thing, I want it to actually be a change. I don’t want it to be a hashtag.” Oscar-winner Viola Davis, above, calling for gender equality in Hollywood “I have a personal motto: I like to break one pointless rule a day.” Housing Minister Jake Berry, whose latest escapade was to walk up a down escalator. “We became the same person. He was me. And I think I can live with that duality. I’m not desperate to change that. I think I’d be delusional if I thought I was ever going to.”

Actor Rupert Grint, who is happy always to be associated with his Ron Weasley character in the Harry Potter films “I’m not perfect.”

Comedian Seann Walsh on his now famous kiss with Strictly Come Dancing partner Katya Jones