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" I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America. "

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" Every character I do is based on someone I know. "

" I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference. "

" I'm as famous as I want to be. "

" I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine. "

" I'm not a film snob. "

" The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states. "

" I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers. "

" I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped. "

" It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in. "

" A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced. "

" I'm fascinated by Bollywood. "

" I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career. "

" There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving. "

" I like going to France, because no one knows who I am. "

" The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down. "

" I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin. "

" You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from. "

" Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them. "

" I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years. "

" It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! "

" I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes. "

" I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that. "

" I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying. "

" As I get older, I just prefer to knit. "