I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.

I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.