Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people. Sally Phillips carpetdressenjoy Change image and share on social
When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere. Sally Phillips blondebrunettehail Change image and share on social
Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure. Sally Phillips austerebadbuy Change image and share on social
As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value. Sally Phillips actoraddchange share on social
I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey. Sally Phillips contidoonfriend Change image and share on social
I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde. Sally Phillips badblondebottom share on social
I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours. Sally Phillips colourhaveleg Change image and share on social
I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults. Sally Phillips blindcompletelydevote Change image and share on social
I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines. Sally Phillips carrycutmagazine Change image and share on social
TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?' Sally Phillips bbc2brandchannel Change image and share on social