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've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

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

Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls.