I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?
I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.
I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.
I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.
I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
