On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.

It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!

It's interesting to see the dislocation between how people perceive a person visually. Apparently on the radio I'm blonde with a big arse.

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

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.

What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth.

I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

I feel blessed to have as many comebacks as I can.

Everything in your business can be outsourced... if you're not emotionally attached to doing it all.

It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.