I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?

I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.