I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.

I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.

I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

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