In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't, he said: Do you mind if I mug you here?

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.

I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.

If you stay in a house and you go to the bathroom and there is no toilet paper, you can always slide down the banisters. Don't tell me you haven't done it.

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world, " I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

When we can only be happy for the success of those less fortunate, we are secretly undermining our own success.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.

The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.

Specialization is for insects.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

I definitely believe in God.