Top 55 Zoe Ball Quotes

I only have vague memories of the Radio 1 days because it was quite a time.

There is such a thing as too much fun.

I remember Will Smith and me seeing who had the most sticky-out ears.

When I look at my face, I notice terrible smoker‘s lines above my lip and nasty sun damage in the middle of my cheeks.

I have a really large family, so we have three big Christmas celebrations. This involves intense diary planning, compromising between the families – and serious food shopping.

On a Friday night, I switch on my log burner, stick on ‘Gardeners’ World’ and I am so happy.

I’ve seen friends get together with someone who’s not single, and thought, ‘God, don’t’ – but then it has worked out. Equally, I’ve seen friends go through terrible times, but still manage to stay together.

Nincompoop is such a brilliantly satisfying word.

I was a really camp child! In the 70s, an age of all these amazing musical subcultures, I was sitting in my living room singing to my dad‘s Streisand records.

I think it’s so isolating to be trapped in your mind like that, when you doubt yourself, you doubt everything you’ve ever known. You doubt your family love you. You doubt your friends care for you.

A stick of celery doesn’t do it for me.

I use this little trick where I take my arms up above my head, breathe in really slowly, and repeat. I do it before every show, TV or radio, and people always laugh at me. But it really helps.

I take a lot of trains, so I love reading on the train. I get really annoyed when there are no delays, because I just want to keep reading and finish my book.

I know I’m not everyone‘s taste and that’s fine, and that is the beauty of digital and radio that you can find what you want to listen to.

I didn’t see my mum Julia for a few years – she was very young when she married my dad and had me, and when they parted I lived with my dad and my other ‘mum,’ his wife Diane.

You just have to be you.

It’s really important that we look after our libraries.

I just wanted to be a performer. I was ambitious. I couldn’t sing and I couldn’t act. I could dance a little. So what was there left for me to do? Television presenter. That was it.

Don’t get me wrong, there are good presenters. There’s Graham Norton and Johnny Vaughan and Sara Cox.

Brighton is such a good place to bring up kids.

You give a little love and it all comes back to you.

My best characteristic is that I don’t take things too seriously. And my worst characteristic is the same one. There are times when my family wants me to take things seriously and I’ll be mucking about. So I’m aware it’s annoying for everyone else.

Love just keeps on coming.

I wish I was slimmer, but cheesecake, crumble and custard, panna cotta… I love ’em all!

I have worked for the BBC for a lot of my career and I kind of always did it for the love. People always go, ‘Oooh, well that’s nonsense,’ but it isn’t, I love my job, I love what I do.

To feel love is the most incredible feeling in the world. To lose it will nearly end you and take you to your knees, but there’s always more.

It’s so hard to sit and watch someone you love and care for struggle with mental health.

I’ve always felt all the jobs I’ve ever got are on merit.

I have a terrible fear of more talented people than me thinking I’m just a prat who does kids’ TV.

Yes, this a disease, and men suffering with depression need help. It takes the right person to break through to someone who has been brave enough to reach out.

I wished they did more things like ‘How’ and ‘Tomorrow‘s World.’ Programmes about how things work.

You know, I look at my kids or my friends and think ‘I couldn’t love you any more.’ And then I do.

Laura Marling is Joni Mitchell-level for me.

In my middle age I seem to love a bit of pastoral telly: ‘Countryfile,’ ‘Springwatch.’ I love watching people in nature. It’s a moment of calm, it’s a moment of meditation.

To be given the Radio 1 breakfast show was huge, but I was partying so hard I barely remember it.

My advice to young girls would be, don’t get on a sun bed and don’t smoke – it wrecks your skin.

I was one of those kids who ate everyone’s school dinners. They used to call me ‘Pig of The Year.’

I’ve listened to Terry Wogan since I was a girl; my parents listened to David Jacobs and Desmond Carrington.

When you grow up as a woman, there is that confusion where you think, ‘I need to be this or that to fit in.’ Now, I’m very much like, ‘No, this is what I am.’

I always eat after a show and I love a big fry-up.

I only ever wanted to be Barbra Streisand.

I generally buy things for people that I’d love to receive myself – so I have plenty of time to curate my own wish list while I shop.

I’m a terrible late-night snacker.

Great gifts include warm pyjamas, bedsocks, scarves and blankets.

Age is just a number and beauty is within.

It’s taken me a long time to grow up.

When my brother and I were small, somebody pointed out that we looked like something out of ‘The Dark Crystal.’ I think it was affectionate, but I’ve never been an oil painting.

I think it is only when you marry and become a parent that you begin to understand that life isn’t always straightforward.

I’ve ridden shopping bikes. My dad held my saddle and pushed me along when I was five. I’ve had a go on a BMX.

It is kind of a strange thing when you face things in your life, you know like addictions, that often you will find that you will deal with it a little bit but then you will slip back into old ways.

I remember seeing Norman Cook swimming in a pair of burgundy pants. I thought: ‘Wow, he looks great.’

I would be more slender if I didn’t eat a bit of chocolate or a cake now and again, but I’m not one of those crazy women who just eat watercress soup – I need to chomp.

I think the ladette culture was a label thing, and it was the nineties and it was Britpop and it was quite wild.

Everyone has a breaking point.

On most sets, the crew always seem to have some delicious tempting treats nearby – I find that if I’ve got a packet of almonds around, a handful is a great snack – I’m now offering them to everyone!