"If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush."
"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."
"In actual life I am a grumpy old bag."
"I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up."
"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."
"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."
"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 want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter."
"I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first."
"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 keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it."
"It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life."
"I haven't really ever had to audition for anything."
"I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart."
"That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that."
"I am a rubbish flirt."
"I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people."
"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."
"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."
"The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place."
"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 don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am."
"I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure."
