You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?

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

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.

Things change when you get to 40. I'm embarrassed even that I'm going through it. In a very morbid way, at 40 you become aware of how long you've been on Earth and you start to question what you're going to use the remaining time doing.

You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

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.