I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

Jim Henson was an absolute genius.

You know you are fat when you hug a child and it gets lost.

I have a very good memory for scripts. I can watch a show I like once, then remember about 90% of the script. But ask me who was in it, and I wouldn't have a clue.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.