Anthea Turner Quotations

Maybe, instead of paying so much in tax, the very rich could be incentivised to help their local community and young people who do not have a home.

We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money - and most of them employ other people.

I do not think we should tax people to a point where they are looking for tax loopholes and getting their money out of the country.

Why do we consider that just because people have more money, they do not deserve it? It is totally wrong. They deserve everything they have earned.

Those who earn money know best how to spend it.

I have made six big home moves in my life and I have never lost money on one I have lived in.

The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

Often, there is a job - say, for a voiceover or an appearance - and you think: 'Blimey!' From the outside it would seem like you are being paid a lot for a short amount of your time. It would be inappropriate to share how much they pay, but in the industry we call it 'doing a bank raid'. Unfortunately, those jobs do not happen every week.

I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it.

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.