You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.