No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

People ask could I have written the show I wrote in 1990 now, and I don't think I could. I think it's much easier to offend people nowadays. People have grown quite sensitive, I think.

The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.

Instant coffee is just old beans that have been cremated.

I think people love to be noticed, they love to feel included. A lot of people are flattered if you, you know, if you make jokes about them, or I think because it means they're known.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role.

The weird thing about all the drag queen Patsys and Eddies from "Absolutely Fabulous" is they are so beautiful, and so tall, and so slim that it sort of puts us to shame.

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.

I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.

My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.

What a lovely balance. Lend shows whatever he wants the world to see and you see through whatever the world wants to show you.

Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you...

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.