They tend to come out a colour called ‘Pants left in wash’

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.

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

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.

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

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

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.

I’m a one-man idiot.

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 told the Inland Revenue I didn’t owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

I like infomercials.

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

I get all kinds of ages, it really does range from silly drunk old men to silly drunk young lads. And the same goes for the females.

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.

If I see somebody visually challenged, I won’t purposefully focus in on them unless they call me names, and then I’ll call them back.

I think serial monogamy says it all.

If you’ve never seen an elephant ski, you’ve never been on acid.

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

The fun is being able to have a show that you can do but then always being able to look out for that opportunity to do something different.

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.

Never put a sock in a toaster.

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

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

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

I wanna live ’til I die, no more, no less.

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.

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

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.