No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would ha…

- Jennifer Saunders

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

- Jennifer Saunders

In the "Absolutely Fabulous" show, it's a fairly dysfunctional family, but they're not women who are constantly in search of a man. They don't live c…

- Jennifer Saunders

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the refere…

- Jennifer Saunders

I think TV companies don't take as many risks any more, it's a bit more prescriptive. There are more channels but there seems to be actually less mai…

- Jennifer Saunders

Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anyt…

- Jennifer Saunders

It makes me a bit sad that, if anything, that people seem to want to go back to an old model of normality, and sitcoms seem to want to be about ordin…

- Jennifer Saunders

Instant coffee is just old beans that have been cremated.

- Jennifer Saunders

People ask could I have written the show I wrote in 1990 now, and I don't think I could. I think it's much easier to offend people nowadays. People h…

- Jennifer Saunders