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“I should have a gold medal for worrying. I worry about everyone, but my family know it's with good intentions.”
“Sedaris is an American humourist and one of the authors I go back to most often. His books contain observations on life, quite anecdotal pieces. I'm a sucker for a casual but intelligent writing style, and his stories properly make me laugh out loud.”
“There's no such thing as normal.”
“Friends earn the title on the flimsiest of premises: because they are in our class at school, or we share an office, or our children like each other.”
“I bite my lips, and it drives makeup artists nuts.”
“As a feminist, I don't like the notion that women have to look a certain way: I think confidence is the most attractive thing.”
“I didn't mean to go into comedy, that was accidental - acting was my original ambition and I would really love to do some more meaty roles in solid drama.”
“The Thick of It' and 'Veep' were not exclusively about politics - they were about human nature and selfishness, venality and power.”
“My great-grandfather was a miner who went off and became an entertainer for a few years to get out of the mines. He wasn't a great showbusiness success story, but clearly loved it.”
“My husband works from home and is a fantastic cook so there is almost always some fantastic meal waiting for me when I get home.”
“I'm a hypochondriac, so I feel I am permanently close to death.”
“My parents completely supported mine and my brother's career choices - I'm an actor, he's a writer.”
“There is a rhythm to a filming day: an ebb and flow of action and inaction, an orderliness to the repetition of each scene from different camera angles.”
“If you get Sharon Horgan, Julia Davis and Sam Spiro in the same room, they're going to make me laugh out loud.”
“Acting almost always draws people with that mix, who see themselves as shy and anxious, but love to perform. Part of the joy of the job is playing the characters who are completely unlike you.”
“I really like being surrounded by good, funny people or good, clever people depending on whether I'm doing comedy or drama and working with them and reacting off them.”
“I watch what I eat but I don't diet. If I did, I'd be resentful about all the things I was depriving myself of.”
“In your own country, it's easy to make assumptions about people based on accents, about areas based on architecture.”
“Obviously I would love it if Sam Mendes rang up tomorrow and said, 'I want you to be the new Bond.'”
“I got Bafta Elbow. I'd spent all night walking around with it clutched to my chest in case someone nicked it. The next morning I woke up with a shooting pain in my left arm and I thought, 'This is it. I won a Bafta and now I'm going to die.'”