Cynthia Payne Quotes

I think all old folk`s homes should have striptease. If I ran one I`d have a striptease every week.

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

In April 1998, I had the honour of being invited to give a talk in Monte Carlo in the presence of the late Crown Prince Albert of Monaco.

Julie Walters asked me at the premiere whether I liked the film and I said she was more like me in Educating Rita - naive, you know?

I`m glad I haven`t married - I crave excitement.

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don`t they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

Every time we had a raid, I`d get a boyfriend out of it.

I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.

I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it`s a good thing he did otherwise I don`t think Personal Services would`ve been so good.

If men want sex they`ll find it.

I wrote to Tim Rice about making a musical about an English madam. He wrote back and said that he thought it was a brilliant idea, but he`s too busy.

It`s been a rollercoaster life but it hasn`t been boring.

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain`s archaic sex laws.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We`ve talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.