Women are women's own worst enemy. They rip each other apart.
Celebrity's a spectator sport. You have to feed it.
When I've had money I've always spent it. I don't invest. A pension? Yes, it's called my talent.
I'm probably the biggest show-off in the world. But I also happen to be an artist. You can be both, you know.
If you're on a film set for 48 weeks of the year, you're nowhere near reality. You can't emote like a human being.
I don't like the taste of alcohol.
We make our own pesto. Our own chutney and jams.
I love all aspects of performance.
I hardly ever drink.
My father was the biggest influence on my own parenting because I became the complete opposite to him. He found it very difficult to show physical love, like cuddling and that kind of stuff, so I went the other way.
It must have been horrible for my parents to see me go from public school to comprehensive to detention centre to borstal. I was busy ploughing my own furrow, but I must have been a terrible worry to them, and for that I am sorry.
I'd done performance art sporadically from about 1976 - very personal street things on my own. Acting seemed like a natural step from that. But I didn't really want to 'be' anything: presenter, comic, actor. I just wanted to perform.
Growing up we were very working-class; you had dinner at 12, then tea at 4:30. If you got supper, you were doing bloody well.
Give me some grilled halloumi and a bit of hummus to snack on, and I'm in heaven.
I started out in comedy gigging and scraping a living together, and eventually worked up to doing shows at the Comedy Store in London in 1979. That led on to me presenting a show in the early days of Channel 4 called 'Whatever You Want,' which had live music and sketches.
I am certain things to certain generations. Lots of people remember me from the 'Comic Strip,' there was the 'Vindaloo' song for the 1998 World Cup, then it was playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in the BBC's 'Robin Hood.'
I always do things for myself and I don't care about what people think.
I didn't really do any acting until I was about 28. I just did odd jobs.
I have no ambition whatsoever. I don't know whether that's because I'm afraid of losing, or of failure - of not being the best.
We are governed by consumerism and it's terrible when that is all that life is geared to.
