My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

On the whole, you can have a private life and be famous. But when milestones happen in your life like having children or getting married, privacy goes out of the window.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

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

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.