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- I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
- I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.
- The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.
- When you have children, your house smells very unpleasant all the time.
- I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to…
- I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the…
- If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so…
- My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all.…
- There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say…
- There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to…
- There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it…
- When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the…
- You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would…
- I think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people up in as…
- I wouldn't say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle