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

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

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.

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.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

Just because you're alive doesn't mean you're living.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.

What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time - ours is the now and here of freedom. Come.

Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.