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

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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I hate clowns. "

" I've always been a misfit. "

" Every character I do is based on someone I know. "

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

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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. "

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

" I'm sick of environmentalism. "

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" I just want to do good work. "