I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.
Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.