TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

There is none In all this cold and hollow world no fount Of deep strong deathless love save that within A mother's heart.

What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie.

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.

Give a cold shoulder to cold callers. Never invest in anything based on a phone call from someone you don't know or whose office is a post office box.

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.