Sandi Toksvig Quotes

I like getting a tan, so if I'm lying on the beach, I want to get as much skin out as possible.

I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

I can't tan naturally.

I stay out of the sun; I'm pretty fair. I don't tan - I burn, so I stay out.

There's no California tan about me. People assume I can't tan, but I actually can. I went on a trip to Hawaii when I was younger and came back so tan that people were like, 'What happened?' It's just not something I actively do. I want to embrace my ivory.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

I can only be in the sun for 15 minutes before burning. I have sunscreen on my face every day. If I'm walking on the sunny side of the street, I'll walk to the shady side. I'm too uncomfortable in the sun.

As far back as I can remember, I have worshipped the sun. My skin is fair, but as the years have gone by, it has toughened and darkened. I now turn a rich golden brown every summer, but only after the first day of burning.

I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.

There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.

I'm pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while.

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy.

If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.

My mother was from Scotland and had very fair skin... she wouldn't allow us to go in the sun.

When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.

My teens and 20s were spent lying on sheets of tinfoil in the weak English sun, covered in baby oil. In Greece and France I would burn, then turn a dark brown.

I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.

Even though we all know the facts, it's hard to resist the lure of a tan.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.

Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'