Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.

Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.