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.

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.

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

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.

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,

November 20th, 2013. A new beginning. A new day. Reborn. Time to grow. Hello world! I am yours. Feed me, I am full of curiosity. Awakened.

President Trump's health care plan is a human rights disaster.

My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and at peace with itself. This will be sufficient for me.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

A principle is a truth that is established by God that can never be changed.

Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.

It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.