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" If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home. "

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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. "

" When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable. "

" 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'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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?' "

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

" I think I'm a bit odd. "

" 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. "

" I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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? "

" I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body. "

" Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness. "

" 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. "

" Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood. "

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

" I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity. "

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

" 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've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child. "