10 Celebrity quotes

1 SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY

“I see a good little rock ‘n’ roll band. Not as good as the Beatles – but good.” (on the Rolling Stones still performing)

2 MERYL STREEP

“I can’t do a lot of things, like golf: I never hit the ball.”

3 MARK NELSON (COMEDIAN)

“Jesus fed 5000 people with two fishes and a loaf of bread. That’s not a miracle. That’s tapas.”

4 COLIN FIRTH

“My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.”

5 JAMIE OLIVER

“He weighs the same as 16 packs of butter.” (on his 8lb newborn son)

6 JENNY ECLAIR

“The ability to poach an egg.” (on the skill everyone should possess)

7 DAME JOAN COLLINS

“Practically every woman I know spends at least 45 minutes a day on their hair. In the time I bathe, put my make-up on, comb my hair and put a hat on.”

8 KRISTEN STEWART (ACTRESS)

“I would be one of those people talking really loudly in restaurants. Actors want to be looked at.”

9 TONY BENNETT, 90

“I want to prove that, at 100, I can sing as well as when I was 45 or 43.”

10 WILL YOUNG

“Music is my passion and the dancing I have done has always been with a microphone in hand. Now there will be no microphone or band, just me, my partner and the dance floor.” (on competing in Strictly Come Dancing)