QUOTES of the week

‘Are you being sent off to chase the Russians?’ The Queen quizzes a Royal Australian Air Force pilot based in Northumberland about Russian forays near UK airspace.

‘I played Gandalf who was 7,000 years old and no one said I was too young.’

Sir Ian McKellen hits back at critics who say that the 81-year-old is too old to play Hamlet.

‘Chauvin is in the courtroom but

America is on trial.’ Veteran civil rights leader the Reverend Al Sharpton as Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin faces a jury, accused of murdering George Floyd.

‘What sort of idiot orders “salt and pepper chicken” and then complains it has salt in it?’

Alice Cheung, who runs the Oriental Express takeaway in Leeds, responds to a critical online review.

‘I thought, “If I could have legs like Cilla I’d have a long career.” ’ Denise Van Outen on her memories of watching the former Blind Date star.

‘I miss him because he was my life for 25 years and I’ve lost my best friend.’

David Suchet, who says filming the death of TV detective Poirot was his saddest day as an actor.

‘I signed the wedding certificate, which is a legal document. I would have committed a serious criminal offence if I signed it knowing it was false.’

The Archbishop of Canterbury rejects claims by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that they were married in secret before their Windsor ceremony.

‘I haven’t even been properly dressed from the waist down since God knows when!’

TV presenter Cat Deeley who is standing in for Lorraine Kelly on her ITV show during the Easter break, admits that her choice of attire has been slack during the pandemic.