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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it. "

" I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think I'm a bit odd. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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'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. "

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" I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful. "

" 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. "