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

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

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

" I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry. "

" 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 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 know I don't fit in in L.A. because I look my age. "

" 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.' "

" 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?' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'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.' "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out. "

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" Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness. "