Trinny Woodall Quotes

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.

The media and press can be relentless, especially with women. Personally, while I take pride in my appearance and enjoy the compliments, when I'm on court, it is all about my game.

When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.

I think 'The Sopranos' probably solidifies the misconception that people have about New Jersey to begin with. Because you're from Jersey, and everybody has an accent, you are perceived a certain way. I don't know if they are jealous or in awe or look down their nose at you, but that's the way life is. If you don't like it, change the channel.

When I am filming dramas, I lean towards doing what the public wants to see from me.

You have to fight to get your show not only on the air but then to keep it what it is and make sure that it doesn't get manipulated into something else.

People in TV get too worried about making things accessible but I don't think all of the viewing population want everything to be sanitised and dumbed down.

I won't name names, but sometimes a TV set can be a shame-and-fear obstacle course for an actress.

There is a pressure on actresses to look in a certain way. Like, when I have to go out for promotion or interviews, I have to choose designer wear.

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

After six years of doing it, the weird thing on 'Towie' is that we can't explain to people that we're famous. We're doing a show where we have to act like normal people.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.