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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for. "

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

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

" Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness. "

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

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

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you? "

" 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. "