I’m going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers – what do you call them… ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.

I’ve become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time.

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’, is as funny as it gets.

‘Family Guy’ is relentlessly excellent.

I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I’d rather pull out my own eyelids.

Because I’d done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that’s what I was doing!

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that’s missing.

There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I’m not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when...

People don’t realise what a nice thing it is for an actor to go to a job where they know or like everybody, because you’re so often having to do new beginnings, starting off on...

When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary’s Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems....

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it’s the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.