Arabella Weir Quotes

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.
Arabella Weir

Lose, Makes, Fat

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.
Arabella Weir

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.
Arabella Weir

Children, Parents, Important

When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
Arabella Weir

Goal, Class, Priority

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?
Arabella Weir

Children, Night, Kids

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.
Arabella Weir

Person, Made, Fat

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.
Arabella Weir

Beautiful, Both, Shot

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.
Arabella Weir

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
Arabella Weir

Bad, Despotism, Cracked

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
Arabella Weir

Mistakes, Greatest, Write

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.
Arabella Weir

Everything, Cry, Queue

I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets.
Arabella Weir

Doctor, Normal, Magazine

I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.
Arabella Weir

Money, Emotional, Rather

I don't understand boys - just ask my husband.
Arabella Weir

Husband, Understand, Ask

I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.
Arabella Weir

Life, Done, Control

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
Arabella Weir

Fear, School, Different

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
Arabella Weir

Time, Father, Living

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
Arabella Weir

Learn, Few, Failing

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.
Arabella Weir

Trust, Parents, Hard

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.
Arabella Weir

Legal, Charity, Businesses

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.
Arabella Weir

School, Kids, London

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
Arabella Weir

Down, Hunting, Gifts

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.
Arabella Weir

Time, Car, Children

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.
Arabella Weir

Power, Help, Popular

If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.
Arabella Weir

Crazy, Mind, Important

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Nationality: British

Born: December 6, 1957

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