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Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

Dawn French

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Dawn French
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 11
Actress
Comedian
Film Actor
Novelist
Stage Actor
Writer
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Dawn Roma French
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Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.
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If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.
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I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
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You have to let kids live their own lives and make their mistakes, but it is difficult now because there are so many things in their lives which weren't in mine - I never had Facebook. And some of the things I see now I'm appalled by. So I'm as nosey about my daughter's life as I can be. I tell her, 'I'm all over you, whether you like it or not.'
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The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.
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In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.
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Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
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I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.
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I don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am.
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People need to learn to take everyone as they are.
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Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?
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If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
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My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
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I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.
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Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?
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I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.
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It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
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I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people.
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I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.
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I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.
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