I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I`ve gotten ridiculous offers.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing too, because they seem so forced.

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

I love John Waters. There`s stuff in it that`s beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don`t want nouveau cult status, though I know we`ve got that sort of audience in the states.

It`s sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

I`m still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.

It`s funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it`s them.

Chic is the character my family least likes to see me as. It is the most uncomfortable make-up. The beard is vile. It`s made of yak hair and itches horribly.

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

I think serial monogamy says it all.

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

I`ve never looked ahead very much in my life. I`ve never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

As you get older, you realize it`s work. It`s that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I`d love to know how to make that last.

It`s the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

As you get older, you realize it`s work. It`s that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I`d love to know how to make that last.

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

I don`t get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It`s just wearying.

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

I`m not a crazy, party-going sort of person.

I`m as famous as I want to be.

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

I like infomercials.

I`m usually put off by performers when they get political.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Maybe when I`m 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood.

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

I hate clowns.

After spending two months in France where the air is great, I genuinely noticed how ill I felt returning to Los Angeles. The way we`re going, if they keep building and building, there will be no space any more.

I`m not jealous over the success of `The Simpsons`. Not at all. They used to appear for 30 seconds in the middle of my show. Maybe they`ll let me appear for 30 seconds in the middle of their show.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We`ve gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving.