Cynthia Payne Quotations

Numerous studies have found that trans fats raise our risk of heart disease. They can also contribute to an increase in total cholesterol levels and a drop in the healthy HDL cholesterol. These man-made fats are much worse for you than any other natural fat, even the saturated fats found in butter and beef.

I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.

I wrote to Tim Rice about making a musical about an English madam. He wrote back and said that he thought it was a brilliant idea, but he's too busy.

I was living in Baltimore and had a 30-minute commute, but now I live in Charlottesville, and I only have to drive 10 minutes to the office,

Julie Walters asked me at the premiere whether I liked the film and I said she was more like me in Educating Rita - naive, you know?

If men want sex they'll find it.

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.

I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement.

It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.

In April 1998, I had the honour of being invited to give a talk in Monte Carlo in the presence of the late Crown Prince Albert of Monaco.

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.