Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.