If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.