I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.

I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.

I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it.

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners