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Fenella Fielding
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“We'd seen all the rushes, which we thought very funny, but the premiere audience reaction was cold and so were the reviews. However, the moment it was released it made audiences everywhere laugh like anything, and it showed that our original reaction had been right. What a relief!”
Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Of her appearance in the film Carry on Screaming on "All Things Horror" (c. June 2008)
“[On Norman Wisdom] One knew that he would lay his hands on anybody [...] You had to make sure you nipped about a bit. There's a way of doing it without reprimanding. He obviously had a terrific inferiority complex.”
Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited in "Fenella Fielding interview: the Sixties vamp on stand-up, sexual harassment and turning 90 in style", The Telegraph (8 November 2017)
“I can remember what I ate. Coconut squares dipped in chocolate, wrapped in gold paper.”
Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had to hide every morning, until Daddy had gone out to work. And then stay out late to try to avoid him in the evening. Because of these terrible rows. Mummy would come and try to get me to go back home in the middle of the day. After about a year the school said look, this cannot carry on. I had to leave.”
Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think my parents had visions of me being found in the Thames with six illicit foetuses in my womb and needle marks up my arm.”
Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I remember once saying that I'd like to go to university. My father told me: "I would rather see you dead at my feet than have you go to a university." I'm laughing about it now, but at the time I was terribly upset. I didn't even understand what going to university meant.”
Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's really splendid, my dear. Are you going to bring it into town?”
Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You get set on a path and, if you succeed, you get better parts, but of the same kind. If you don't take a lot of trouble, you get stuck like that.”
Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Home life was horrid. Daddy used to knock me about with his fists, and my mother would egg him on.”
Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited from her memoir in "Carry on Screaming's Fenella Fielding on fighting with Kenneth Williams and bouncing back after bankruptcy", The Guardian (8 November 2017).
“[On Kenneth Williams] He was quite happy to steal the good lines I made up and use them before I could say them [...] He would do anything as long as he came out best. It was outrageous.”
Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited from her memoir in "Fenella Fielding interview: the Sixties vamp on stand-up, sexual harassment and turning 90 in style", The Telegraph (8 November 2017).