Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing.