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.

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?

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

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

Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.

A big secret for happiness - stay away from people who steal your peace of mind.

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation.

Donald Trump is not softening his position on immigration.

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being.