Loo Quotes

"The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, `Girl in stall No. 1, were you in Mystic Pizza (1988)? I paused and I said, yeah that was me." - (People Magazine 8/22/99)

Society was so much more prudish in the 1960s. In one episode of The Avengers I played a belly dancer and I had to stick a jewel in my navel because the Americans wouldn`t tolerate them. In those days you didn`t flash the boobs at all. What you did do to look glamorous was jack the boobs up and probably wear something quite low-cut.

The leather catsuit I wore in The Avengers was a total nightmare; it took a good 45 minutes to get unzipped to go to the loo. It was like struggling in and out of a wet-suit. Once I got into the jersey catsuits they were very easy to wear but you had to watch for baggy knees; there is nothing worse. I got a lot of very odd fan mail while I was in that show, but my mum used to enjoy replying to it. Some of the men who wrote to me must have been a bit startled because she would offer really motherly advice. I would get a letter from a teenage boy, say, who was overexcited and my mother would write back saying: "My daughter is far too old for you and what you really need is a good run around the block."

I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I`ve done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships.

Here is an opportunity for a great experience to play in our backyard in front of a lot of people and fans. As a coach you really think about wanting to win at state. You usually don`t want to duck the better teams and usually Dade has the great teams. I look at it as a challenge.

I`m not very good at relaxing. Reading`s the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don`t think there`s a moment of the day when I wouldn`t be if I was left alone.

Well, I don`t know who the great British public think cleans out the loo in the Hamilton household, but I can tell you, it`s not Neil.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn`t going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

The blackout of 2003 absolutely turned up the heat and put a spotlight on an industry from top to bottom that didn`t get much attention in the previous decade. We are doing things today, and creating legislation that addresses detail we would never have looked at if that blackout had not happened.

It meant that I could think for myself and that I wasn`t part of the mass preppy movement, ... I hated popular music at the time and pop culture of the time and I wanted to sort of stake out a position as being against all this stuff and I liked the way it looked.