Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.

If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important to me that she stays that way.

In terms of Bridget [Jones] I honestly don't know. One thing I can say for sure is that all of these stories have been an honest, instinctive expression of something I felt or observed at the time. I would never cynically think "Oh that would sell well next."

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.