I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.

People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.

The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.