I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft.

I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to get words out.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.

I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you're much more of a go-er.

The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.

I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.

Once upon a time...long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us.

When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice.We can choose to be taken by the evil.Or we can try to embrace the good.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

The secret of Christian living is love. Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil.

THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.

Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible.