Top 40 Sally Phillips Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When I’m depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I’m happy. The only time I don’t eat is if I am terribly nervous.”

— Sally Phillips

2. “I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.”

— Sally Phillips

3. “I wasn’t hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.”

— Sally Phillips

4. “I’ve got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.”

— Sally Phillips

5. “What having a Down’s syndrome child isn’t – and I feel very strongly about this – is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down’s syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it’s not.”

— Sally Phillips

6. “My blood runs cold when I hear the ‘great news’ that we have found a marker for the Down’s syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It’s only good news if you’re going to terminate.”

— Sally Phillips

7. “I’m feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.”

— Sally Phillips

8. “I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for – if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it’s a good idea.”

— Sally Phillips

9. “Once you have a Down’s syndrome child, you can’t conform. In a way, you’re free.”

— Sally Phillips

10. “The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap – from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.”

— Sally Phillips

11. “I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.”

— Sally Phillips

12. “I’m sorry to say I’m very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.”

— Sally Phillips

13. “I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.”

— Sally Phillips

14. “I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone’s funny all the time. Doon Mackichan’s my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti’s the funniest with a monkey.”

— Sally Phillips

15. “My mum’s from Yorkshire and my parents aren’t snotty or posh – they’re very hard workers, both of them.”

— Sally Phillips

16. “When I’m a brunette, it’s four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.”

— Sally Phillips

17. “I tell people that I’m a Christian, but I don’t think it’s giving an insight into who I am or what I’m about.”

— Sally Phillips

18. “I don’t leave London, really, and I don’t do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.”

— Sally Phillips

19. “Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.”

— Sally Phillips

20. “When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: ‘I’m just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I’m pregnant.’ That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.”

— Sally Phillips

21. “I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.”

— Sally Phillips

22. “Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don’t they? It’s like having consumer Tourette’s. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.”

— Sally Phillips

23. “Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.”

— Sally Phillips

24. “My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.”

— Sally Phillips

25. “I don’t get star-struck at all.”

— Sally Phillips

26. “One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you’re the queen of comedy, and the next year, you’re so ‘yesterday,’ and it’s not because you’ve done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven’t been in work because you’ve been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.”

— Sally Phillips

27. “If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.”

— Sally Phillips

28. “People have really strong images of what church is, and it’s almost certainly not the same as mine.”

— Sally Phillips

29. “I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.”

— Sally Phillips

30. “A lot of things in ‘Parents’ I find very truthful.”

— Sally Phillips

31. “I’m a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.”

— Sally Phillips

32. “I’ve got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.”

— Sally Phillips

33. “Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.”

— Sally Phillips

34. “A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It’s like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.”

— Sally Phillips

35. “I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.”

— Sally Phillips

36. “I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.”

— Sally Phillips

37. “The only way I’ll ever run a marathon is if I’m involved in the administration.”

— Sally Phillips

38. “All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.”

— Sally Phillips

39. “Comedians have to write to survive because you don’t get cast for your beauty.”

— Sally Phillips

40. “When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.”

— Sally Phillips

41. “I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.”

— Sally Phillips

42. “I’m very devoted to my kids – I’m completely blind to their faults.”

— Sally Phillips

43. “I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.”

— Sally Phillips

44. “TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it’s not ‘Is it a good script?’ but ‘Is it a BBC2 script?’”

— Sally Phillips