Best 7 quotes of Lynn Barber on MyQuotes

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

People say you shouldn't marry for looks but I disagree: if I tot up all the pleasure I got from looking at David over the years I'd say it amounted to a very substantial hill of beans.