I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

People ask could I have written the show I wrote in 1990 now, and I don't think I could. I think it's much easier to offend people nowadays. People have grown quite sensitive, I think.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.

Instant coffee is just old beans that have been cremated.

I think people love to be noticed, they love to feel included. A lot of people are flattered if you, you know, if you make jokes about them, or I think because it means they're known.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role.

The weird thing about all the drag queen Patsys and Eddies from "Absolutely Fabulous" is they are so beautiful, and so tall, and so slim that it sort of puts us to shame.

A system should be viable, it should let your dream to be developed and born

Some morning, get up and allow the power of God to come on you, and allow Him to bless you.

President-elect Donald Trump is not happy that he lost the popular vote. And this stat is probably not going to make him feel any better.

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.

I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.