Victoria Wood quotes:

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.

Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating bits of cold toast I can get caught shoplifting and go to Holloway [women's prison].

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.

You know daytime television? You know what it's supposed to be for? It's to keep unemployed people happy. It's supposed to stop them running to the social security demanding mad luxuries like cookers and windows.

In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.

I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.

Everyone I meet is gay, married or crackers

I can remember when pants were pants. You wore them for twenty years, then you cut them down for pan scrubs. Or quilts.

I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats...

I have been in a youth hostel...You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.

I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

I wouldn't kidnap a man for sex - I'm not saying I couldn't use someone to oil the mower.

If God had meant them to be lifted and separated, He would have put one on each shoulder.

Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then they finished, they both lit up a cigarette and this woman stood up and said, Excuse me, I think you'll find this is a non-smoking compartment.

My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena.

On a train, why do I always end up sitting next to the woman who's eating the individual fruit pie by sucking the filling out through the hole in the middle?

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.