By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.
-- Cynthia Payne
Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.
-- Cynthia Payne
Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.
-- Cynthia Payne
I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.
-- Cynthia Payne
I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.
-- Cynthia Payne
I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.
-- Cynthia Payne
I wrote to Tim Rice about making a musical about an English madam. He wrote back and said that he thought it was a brilliant idea, but he's too busy.
-- Cynthia Payne
I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement.
-- Cynthia Payne
If men want sex they'll find it.
-- Cynthia Payne
In 1992, I completed a three week season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where I played each night to packed houses.
-- Cynthia Payne
In April 1998, I had the honour of being invited to give a talk in Monte Carlo in the presence of the late Crown Prince Albert of Monaco.
-- Cynthia Payne
It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.
-- Cynthia Payne
Julie Walters asked me at the premiere whether I liked the film and I said she was more like me in Educating Rita - naive, you know?
-- Cynthia Payne
Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?
-- Cynthia Payne
My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.
-- Cynthia Payne
Novelist Paul Bailey wrote the story of my life, An English Madam, and I became a television and media personality.
-- Cynthia Payne
Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.
-- Cynthia Payne
Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.
-- Cynthia Payne
When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?
-- Cynthia Payne



