There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.

I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.