10 Celebrity quotes

1 MICHAEL BALL

“I’ll never go out of fashion because I was never in fashion.”

2 BEN HARDY

“I like to think of soap as the rep theatre – it’s a great place to actually learn your screen craft.”

3 CHRIS PACKHAM

“The UK’S landscape is in big trouble. Some parts of it are absolutely bereft, they’re deserts.”

4 THANDIE NEWTON

“Sci-fi really captures people’s attention like nothing else, but the fans are absolutely bonkers.”

5 ALISON STEADMAN

“Filming’s very tiring, and maybe I don’t want to do that 50 weeks of the year, but I certainly want to carry on.”

6 SIR IAN MCKELLEN

“I hope I might arrange a dress rehearsal before I go.” (on planning his own funeral)

7 ROBERT PESTON

“I have always been a bit crazy and I still am crazy. All the best people are a bit eccentric.”

8 KATHLEEN TURNER

“After Body Heat I found out Michael Douglas, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson would have competitions to see who could ‘get me’.”

9 JEREMY VINE

“I had to play Macbeth in the school play and I was really bad. I forgot half the main speech.”

10 DALE WINTON

“I would rather be called a serial killer than fat.” (a memorable quip from the much-loved TV host who died last week)