Jennifer Saunders

“Porsches are a great drive.”

“I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.”

“I think it is a bit harder for women starting in comedy.”

“We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.”

“But I think our humour is exactly the same today. Only, we've made rules now. We've said we are not going to do prosthetic make-up scenes, because when they take it off half your face comes off.”

“When I was a child, a lot of my time was spent in Scotland because my mother's Scottish, and we used to go up to Ayrshire and visit relations in a place called Dalry.”

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

“Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.”

“I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.”

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

“I recommend a little dose of cancer to anyone.”

“I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.”

“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've never had Botox. But I like people to imagine I have.”

“I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.”

“I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.”

“The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.”

“I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.”

“I'm a total petrolhead. My three brothers and I used to ride scrambling bikes in the field near where we lived. We all liked cars. I've always loved the smell of an engine.”

“Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.”