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“People seem comfortable with me. And maybe that's got a lot to do with shows like Graham Norton. You just tell it like it is on those programs.”
“My looks have changed, but I was never beautiful, so I'm not any less beautiful now.”
“Old people have a much better time in India because they're respected.”
“I very much regret that I haven't been taken more seriously. I would love to have been at the National or the RSC.”
“Everything's harder for women: harder to start, to stay employed, to run a life with a family.”
“Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.”
“I don't like 'comedy,' I like 'life,' which has everything in it.”
“I should have got thin, but I eat too much. I hate the word 'moderation.'”
“I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after - I have arthritis - and money is a factor.”
“I can't recall a bad review - maybe I'm due one. But the worst thing would be if somebody said I was inaudible. Reach your audience's ears - only then can you reach their hearts.”
“I don't for a second regret my closeness to them because they were wonderful, golden parents who gave me so much confidence.”
“I think life is sweeter shared; and if anything were to happen to my partner, I would find it really hard without her because she's the perfect person for my life.”
“Communication is something we all take for granted.”
“I've always felt that Donald Trump was a Dickensian character because he is so ridiculous. With his hair and his arrogance, he is certainly Dickensian in his absurdity.”
“Israel is stupid for allowing people to vent their anti-Semitism.”
“I have no secrets. I decided very early on in life that the strongest position was to be completely open.”
“I do say things possibly other people don't say. So I shouldn't be too surprised when they are picked up.”
“I'm a silly little needy person sometimes, and I crouch in a room all alone and think of all the people that I wish were with me.”
“Unfortunately, I don't know many black people.”
“From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.”