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

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.