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

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 never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.

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.

I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.