Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.

I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

Stresses in a marriage and in family life, sometimes they're prompted by whatever is going on in the wider world as well as what's going on behind your door.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

I happen to be a fantastic kisser. Sadly, you will never get to find out.”“Never say never, ” he answers in a singsong voice.“Thanks for that, Justin Bieber. But yeah, not going to happen, dude.

The repulsive actions of the person who abused you do not identify you.

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Age is nothing, can still win the Grand Slam, pretty happy about my age, more experience.

Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.

Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.

A genius is the one most like himself.