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

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" 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! "

" 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'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. "

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

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

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

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

" I like infomercials. "

" An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country. "

First Amendment

" I love documentaries, I like observing real people. "

" 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 just want to do good work. "

" It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 usually put off by performers when they get political. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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