Ruby Wax famous quotes

04-14-2025

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
-- Ruby Wax

#Mother #Being A Mother #Subjects
Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?
-- Ruby Wax

#Sick #Imagination #Brain
People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.
-- Ruby Wax

#Motivation #Inspiration #People
For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.
-- Ruby Wax

#House #Mindfulness #Next
[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.
-- Ruby Wax

#Motivation #Real #Inspiration
My whole career has been an act of revenge.
-- Ruby Wax

#Revenge #Careers
Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.
-- Ruby Wax

#Jealous #My Boyfriend #Letters
Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.
-- Ruby Wax

#Be Kind #Kind #Be Kind To Others
I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; itâ€™s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.
-- Ruby Wax

#Book #Imagination #Looks
Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously
-- Ruby Wax

#Facts
My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.
-- Ruby Wax

#Baby #Men #Gun
By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.
-- Ruby Wax

#Drunk #Remember #Dessert
College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
-- Ruby Wax

#Graduation #Athlete #College
How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?
-- Ruby Wax

#Sick #Brain #Body
Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.
-- Ruby Wax

#Mother #Kids #Hard Life
What once made you safe now drives you insane.
-- Ruby Wax

#Insane #Safe #Made
I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.
-- Ruby Wax

#Carbohydrates #Protein
I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.
-- Ruby Wax

#Years #Wrinkles #Skins
I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
-- Ruby Wax

#People #Television #Fats
I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.
-- Ruby Wax

#Fun #Hussein #Bills
You shouldn't run away from your problems, you need to aim straight for the heart of the beast.
-- Ruby Wax

#Running #Heart #Needs
I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced
-- Ruby Wax

#Funny #Witty #Humorous
Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.
-- Ruby Wax

#Years #Fake #Pox
You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.
-- Ruby Wax

#Friends #Jealous #Laughing
Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.
-- Ruby Wax

#Friends
I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.
-- Ruby Wax

#Football #Women #Games
I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.
-- Ruby Wax

#Mom #Mother #Home

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