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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America. "

" 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 like infomercials. "

" I'm sick of environmentalism. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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've always been a misfit. "

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

" I'm fascinated by Bollywood. "

" I think serial monogamy says it all. "

" It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them. "

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

" I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine. "

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped. "