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

Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?

What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?

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.

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.

Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.

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

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

Times are hard and friends are few

I love looking after animals. I find it very enjoyable.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

Women are most adorable when they are afraid that's why they frighten so easily.

My father's plan was, we were going to grow up and travel the world.

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be.

The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.

I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought: 'That's it. I'm not buying the next size'.

Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.