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" If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down. "

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" I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it? "

" 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. "

" When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous. "

" 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. "

" I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful. "

" 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? "

" In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal. "

" Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories. "

" I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation. "

" Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development. "

" I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it. "

" I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit. "

" I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age. "

" I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative. "

" Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically. "

" I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult. "

" A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way. "

" Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness. "

" When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.' "

" I think I'm a bit odd. "

" I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'll go to the fridge and think, 'I'll see what I can put together,' and I'll combine beetroot and sausage and prawns with goat's cheese sprinkled on top and think, 'I like that they're all slightly pink. It looks fine and... actually, it is fine.' "

" 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. "

" I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business. "

" We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling. "

" Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control. "

" 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. "