"I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine."

"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."

"I haven't really ever had to audition for anything."

"I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart."

"The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body."

"Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area."

"I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air."

"I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure."

"Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?"

"Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it."

"My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit."

"Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that."

"I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet."

"Never was there a creature more appropriately placed to be the poster girl for euthanasia."

"Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it."

"I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up."

"Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen."

"It's not that I don't like my mum's face; it's just that it belongs on her, not me."

"I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone."

"It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there "so "I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon."

"Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want."

"I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me."

"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."

"What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel."