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" You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals. "

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" I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working. "

" It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken. "

" My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop. "

" I don't like awards ceremonies. I'd sooner go to the pub with mates I've known for years. "

" I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it. "

" I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead. "

" Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous. "

" I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job. "

" I went to work for the Civil Service. I'd wanted to work for the Ministry of Defence because I had some far-fetched idea that it had something to do with the Avengers, but I ended up in Social Security. "

" I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it. "

" When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits. "

" I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. "

" Times are hard and friends are few. "

" The person I always enjoy having a meal with is Cilla Black. I might not see her for months, but then I'll pick her up at her flat, and we'll go to a restaurant, and it's like I've seen her that morning. "

" Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack - it's genetic; there's nothing I can do. "

" I don't want to sit until I'm 90 with people running around after me. I'm not one for sitting on the couch. "

" I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but I'm 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister. "

" I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show. "

" I know it's a cliche, but I didn't want to work in an office. "

" If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya. "

" The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone. "

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" I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals. "

" I only like doing live telly. It's great because you go in and do it and then go home. No edit, no retakes. "

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" I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs. "

" I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'. "

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