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" Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories. "

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" Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying? "

" I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself. "

" When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous. "

" I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative. "

" I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it? "

" Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically. "

" We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling. "

" I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit. "

" I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you? "

" I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana. "

" Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness. "

" I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for. "

" I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity. "

" When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.' "

" I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people. "

" I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body. "

" Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control. "

" You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development. "

" I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun. "

" I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out. "

" I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful. "

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" I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened. "

" Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful. "

" Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out. "

" If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home. "

" When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair. "

" If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down. "