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

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

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

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 like infomercials.

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

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

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

It’s funny – if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it’s them.

I was the nasty one that sat in the toilets and smoked-and made the other girls cry

I think serial monogamy says it all.

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

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

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.

It’s the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

If God had intended for breasts to be seen, He wouldn’t have created large woolen pullovers

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

Maybe when I’m 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood.

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 worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

I’m as famous as I want to be.

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.

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

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.

I hate clowns.

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.

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.