Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.

We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.