“Like Pinter and Orton, the writer, Clive Exton, catches the poetry of ...” — Sheila Hancock Quote

“Like Pinter and Orton, the writer, Clive Exton, catches the poetry of modern everyday speech, which, whether we like it or not, includes four-letter words used as verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives. But, God, is it difficult to learn.”

“I talk too much and I don't listen or pause to think.”

“I've got a great relationship with my oldest grandson because we go to political meetings and lectures, which I love.”

“I get into an awful lot of trouble for not being polite.”

“In the old days I'd like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was young I did a lot of campaigning.”

“People are surprised because I drive a Jaguar XK sports car and say the occasional intelligent thing. People think I'm an exception, but I'm typical of a lot of women of my age.”

“'Tough' is one of the last adjectives I would use to describe myself.”

“A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.”

“I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.”

“The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school.”

“I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell... I love them.”

“If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.”