Top 100 Sue Perkins Quotes
“I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I’m very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.”
― Sue Perkins
“I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.”
― Sue Perkins
“Long hair doesn’t look good on me because my hair is fine.”
― Sue Perkins
“The only time I am not talking is when I am dancing. I look like an electrocuted octopus.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’m a passionate person; there’s a lot going on underneath my carousel of blazers: a cauldron of sensitivity and emotion.”
― Sue Perkins
“Being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me.”
― Sue Perkins
“I love watching birds of prey and stags.”
― Sue Perkins
“I have slight attention-span issues, so I will often wander off, and then I will be alerted – in inverted commas – when the smoke alarm goes off. So that’s how I work out if a bake is finished.”
― Sue Perkins
“You’re never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They’re completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher taste: it hasn’t got that bass-note beefiness.”
― Sue Perkins
“The great thing about ageing is that your eyesight deteriorates at the same rate as your face. So I can’t see how bad things are getting.”
― Sue Perkins
“Googling yourself is like staring at a flame and then putting your hand in it.”
― Sue Perkins
“I have a voice inside. A voice that I am forever trying to silence. A voice that calls me in when I want to be out, playing. A voice that is always sad. That is always terrified. That always wants to sit in the darkened room, away from noise and movement and colour – away from any experience that could prove to be challenging.”
― Sue Perkins
“I like ’24.’ But I have to wait until it comes out, then watch it all in 24 hours. You really let yourself go in that one day; you just eat crisps and wander around madly ranting.”
― Sue Perkins
“I don’t think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it’s like to feel odd.”
― Sue Perkins
“It’s always a treat for me to go to the British Library.”
― Sue Perkins
“’Bleak House’ remains a great novel for me, and I love ‘David Copperfield.’”
― Sue Perkins
“I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens’s books work for me.”
― Sue Perkins
“I was an international krumper at one time. I can’t talk about it, really, because when you’ve lived for krump like I have, when you get a bit older and you move away from it, it’s hard.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’d love to see Kate Bush, full stop.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’d really like to see Mary Berry busting out a Pitbull number!”
― Sue Perkins
“By making the gay character funny and sweet but above all normal, you make a far better, longer lasting statement than you would if you had an entirely gay comedy.”
― Sue Perkins
“I wanted to set ‘Heading Out’ in a real world, a concept I originally struggled with, as I don’t have a proper job.”
― Sue Perkins
“I don’t have it in my personality to be frightened of things.”
― Sue Perkins
“It was a privilege to experience life beyond the cliches and to witness the vibrancy, chaos, and multiculturalism of Bengal first hand.”
― Sue Perkins
“In Hebrew, the name Susan means ‘graceful lily’ – in Khmer, it means ‘girl with the bad puns,’ and in ancient Aztec, it translates as ‘she with the cockerel hair and dirty glasses.’”
― Sue Perkins
“I don’t really drink, but the one thing I really hanker after is Zubrowka vodka. If it’s someone’s birthday, I’ll pretend I like red wine for about three sips.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’m a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.”
― Sue Perkins
“I usually like ‘The Guardian’ and its journalistic bent, but sometimes ‘The Independent.’ And if I’m being totally honest, some weekends I’ll have a ‘News of the Screws’ or a ‘Sunday Spurt.’ You need high and lowbrow.”
― Sue Perkins
“I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.”
― Sue Perkins
“I came to music very young.”
― Sue Perkins
“A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an audience, and the mercurial brilliance of a host of musicians, and shape them all to his or her interpretative ends.”
― Sue Perkins
“Whatever the critics make of ‘Maestro,’ I hope they don’t call it a reality show.”
― Sue Perkins
“With comedy, it’s not always a blessing to be beautiful because part of it is self-parody and gurning.”
― Sue Perkins
“I am happier with my face since I started wearing glasses at 27, because they punctuate it. They also hide one of my biggest defects, my baggy eyes.”
― Sue Perkins
“My idea of hell is to sit with a pair of curling tongs or have my hair blow-dried: I fidget like a 12-year-old boy.”
― Sue Perkins
“It’s so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.”
― Sue Perkins
“Sometimes I get into the mindset that being heterosexual is a brave new world, because you can conceive, and you work out the rest of it once you’re pregnant.”
― Sue Perkins
“I don’t look great. I’m a bit ramshackle.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’m not fashionable.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’ll go on panel shows looking like I’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards.”
― Sue Perkins
“I ended up in TV because I have no ability to do anything else. I have an agent who tells me where I have to be when.”
― Sue Perkins
“Music is where I’m still. It’s where I’m focused. It’s such a joy. I’d like to make it a big part of my life.”
― Sue Perkins
“If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you’re heading for disaster.”
― Sue Perkins
“My dad was a keen philatelist and, when he died, he left me an album he’d curated over some 40 years. He’d handpicked every item, saying each one reminded him of me. I opened it to discover the pages were full of beige stamps bearing the image of George V. Take from that what you will.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’m OK with my appearance. I have made my peace with it after a long and frankly exhausting battle.”
― Sue Perkins
“I had an operation on my cornea when I was little, and remember being deeply enamoured with the team who looked after me.”
― Sue Perkins
“I always assumed that the reason I’ve never run a marathon is because I haven’t bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line.”
― Sue Perkins
“We all belong to a tribe. You might be a religious or a family person – that’s your tribe.”
― Sue Perkins
“To those who say: ‘Why pay for a gym when the outdoors is free?’ I say this. In nature, there are no medicine balls. You can lie on an outsized gourd doing sit-ups, but in reality, outsized gourds are hard to come by unless you live in a farmers’ market.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’m desperate to be in the same room as Katie Hopkins. There are a few things I’d like to say to her, really calmly. I’d just like to put forward a case for her to integrate the ‘her’ that she pretends to be on TV with the ‘her’ she is as a real person.”
― Sue Perkins
“You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They’re not for sale.”
― Sue Perkins
“My mum has recorded all my programmes and not watched one. My dad says he finds it embarrassing.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’ve hated myself since I knew my own name. But ‘Bake Off’ has simply confirmed to me what a bottom-feeding halfwit I am.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’m known for being quite gobby, but also, I’m quite old fashioned in the sense that I like writing letters.”
― Sue Perkins
“I have an almost entirely written correspondence with a few friends of mine who are really busy. We exchange quite long and sometimes quite whimsical, sometimes quite meaningful, sometimes silly letters.”
― Sue Perkins
“Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.”
― Sue Perkins
“Because I’m busy, I don’t sit down to a lot of big formal meals – unless I’ve got mates round, in which case I’ll cook something.”
― Sue Perkins
“I am an appalling softie. But somehow, somewhere along the line, I’ve learnt how to hide it.”
― Sue Perkins
“Bluster – it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.”
― Sue Perkins
“I have only really been able to ever intuit my sexuality through love.”
― Sue Perkins
“Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’d like to live permanently in October 1988, when I started college. I had no responsibility and the energy to do whatever I wanted. My optimism wasn’t dented by experience or low self-esteem.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’m always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’d have worked with an orchestra, been a chef, or a zoo keeper.”
― Sue Perkins
“Dogs are fur repositories for everything you can’t say to humans.”
― Sue Perkins
“You build up coming out to this horrible moment. It’s so stressful, there’s so much adrenaline, and there’s so much primal fear – even though I know my parents to be good people – that they’re going to reject you.”
― Sue Perkins
“Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.”
― Sue Perkins
“I don’t want my life to just be about me.”
― Sue Perkins
“A good ‘Bake Off,’ for me, is just about cakes and nice people – and that’s a successful show.”
― Sue Perkins
“I always like to think that I’m accountable for everything I do, but I’ll never understand how I did some of the things that I did.”
― Sue Perkins
“I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession – either as a doctor or nurse or vet.”
― Sue Perkins
“Performers only get to do their showing off because the public pay to see them. To deny your audience a photo, whatever the format, seems a little rude to me.”
― Sue Perkins
“I sent an ex of mine an enormous oil painting of me as a housewarming gift. It was one of the most elaborate and time-consuming practical jokes I’ve ever done.”
― Sue Perkins
“Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn’t necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and relationships, and those are ongoing.”
― Sue Perkins
“My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood, but it’s a great way to start a conversation.”
― Sue Perkins
“I can put on a ã1,000 item of clothing and make it look a mess.”
― Sue Perkins
“People have tried to glam me up over the years, but it just doesn’t work.”
― Sue Perkins
“Let’s face it: I’m not a looker. I’m a scruff. But I have embraced my scruffiness. We’re happy together.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’m not against embracing my femininity, but I’ve never bought into the idea that you have to wear a dress to do that.”
― Sue Perkins
“When it started, ‘Bake Off’ wasn’t a big hit. Respect to the people who said, ‘We’ll keep commissioning this and give it a chance.’”
― Sue Perkins
“I’m a good cook, but I can’t bake.”
― Sue Perkins
“I hate recipes.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’m not very good when I’m given scripts.”
― Sue Perkins
“I make no bones about the fact that I’m over 40.”
― Sue Perkins
“I made ‘Heading Out’ with a lot of love and surrounded myself with brilliant people who challenged me to do my best and also gave a great deal of love and support back. As a result, the experience was blissful.”
― Sue Perkins
“Parents care deeply.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’ve always thrown myself into love in a rather carefree way, and the net result is that you do get hurt. But I wouldn’t take away any of the experiences of my life.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’m very impatient.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’ve learnt how to develop routines. To play with each bit. To enjoy expanding on it. To get used to the stage being mine.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’m so in love with David Dimbleby.”
― Sue Perkins
“You can love food without being a cook. Equally, you can love food and be a very good cook.”
― Sue Perkins
“Food attracts a kind of nerdishness like any other sort of passion, and ‘Cooks’ Questions’ is for those people who want to find out more.”
― Sue Perkins
“I have a freelancer’s mentality: if I leave the country for more than 24 hours on a non-work trip, I believe I will never be employed again.”
― Sue Perkins
“I don’t understand people who travel purely gastronomically, who book a Michelin-starred restaurant three months in advance and suddenly find themselves in Copenhagen or Barcelona with a zeitgeist plate of snail porridge.”
― Sue Perkins
“For me, a great meal is a collision of company, environment, ambient temperature, the waiters, where you are emotionally.”
― Sue Perkins
“I’d never been one for leaving the comforts of home. That person wasn’t me; I didn’t spend my formative years youth-hostelling round Rwanda or climbing Everest in a tie-dye playsuit to raise awareness of something or other.”
― Sue Perkins
“As an adult, the obsessive dynamics of self-employment meant it was impossible for me to take a break. What would happen if I disappeared for a week or two? I would be forgotten. Forever. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would, doubtless, present itself – and I would miss the chance to seize it.”
― Sue Perkins
“When I was 18, I went to the East Coast of America, got mugged, and came straight home.”
― Sue Perkins
“As a child, I was awkward, fidgety, and shy, with a total inability to concentrate, and in that regard, I’m exactly the same as an adult.”
― Sue Perkins
“One day I would want to be an Egyptologist, the next day an ornithologist. I was an exhausting child.”
― Sue Perkins
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