Comedian

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

I'm sick of environmentalism.

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.

I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

I'm as famous as I want to be.

I like infomercials.

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.