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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" I like infomercials. "

" I think serial monogamy says it all. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 love documentaries, I like observing real people. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me. "

" I hate clowns. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating. "

" I'm not a film snob. "

" 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! "

" There's nothing I won't attempt. "