It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.
In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.
Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.
Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.
I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.
I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.
When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.
I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.
I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.
I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.
I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.
There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.
I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.
Debate is so much better than denial.
It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.
Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.
You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.
I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.
I can talk myself so much into my part.
It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.
The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.