Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears

We deserved to lose and it was a good result for us, considering the way we played in the second half.

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.

We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.