Gail Porter Quotations

So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.

Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.

My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

I read everything and anything. I love books.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.

When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.

When you have children, that's your main focus.

You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.

We shaved it off in a graveyard in America - could it get any weirder than that?

I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

I was worried how it would change our relationship but James has been absolutely fantastic. He even thinks my bald head is quite cute.

We basically started by going outside shooting. I told the boys that I wanted them to capture images of themselves that express who they are as portraits, without including their faces.

I've never seen anything like that in my life,

In a way, shaving my head feels like a new beginning to me,

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.

My home is a place of warmth and love. No one should be denied a home.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

Bald is the new black!

I just don't think men fancy me.

I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

I do tend to overdo everything.

The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness.

I don't believe in God.

I've always had an addictive nature.

I'm always weeping at something or other.