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" 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. "
Tamsin Greig
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" 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. "
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" I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing. "
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" A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way. "
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" 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. "
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" I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body. "
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" Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation. "
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" I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach. "
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" I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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? "
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" I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life. "
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" 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? "
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" I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?' "
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" I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that. "
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" I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child. "
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