I think it's so easy when you have children just to turn your focus inward on your family and because, when they're young, you don't sleep very much, you're walking around like a zombie most of the time anyway. It's a really important part of my life to have good friends, you have to work quite hard to keep the relationships going but it's worth it.

It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career.

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.

When you have children your house smells very unpleasant all the time.

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

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