I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.

I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.

Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken.