It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft.

I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to get words out.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.

I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you're much more of a go-er.

The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

Listen, " Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.

Moonlight signifies a time when there is hope in darkness, but you have to focus on that hope.

The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.