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" 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. "

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

" I like infomercials. "

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

" Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? "

" I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else. "

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

" I just want to do good work. "

" Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.' "

" I'm sick of environmentalism. "

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" I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me. "

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

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

" I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do. "

" As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last. "

" There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't. "

" It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them. "

" 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 never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting. "

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

" My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on. "

" I've always been a misfit. "

" My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. "

" I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person. "

" I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much. "