People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue?

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.

You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.

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.

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.