Comedian

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

I've always been a misfit.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

I just want to do good work.

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

I think serial monogamy says it all.

There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?