The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.