Rebecca Front

“I can't get through a joke without making a mistake, or giving away the punchline.”

“As a mum I'm very vulnerable to anything where children are upset or having a rotten time of it. There are news stories I have to switch off because I think, 'I can't do anything about this and it's just too painful to watch.'”

“Football is more than tribal; for many men it's what defines them as men, what separates them from the apes - and sometimes, more importantly, from the women.”

“Everybody hits a registry office at some point in their life, or at least, you know, a member of your family at some point in your life will have to go and register a birth or a marriage or a death, so all human life is here, and what could possibly be a better forum for drama than that?”

“I've always been happiest being part of a team.”

“My dad is really funny, and I have a strong memory of being proud that he could make a room laugh, but he's rubbish at telling jokes, and I've inherited that from him.”

“When I'm in a lift it's completely terrifying, but irrationally so. I'm shaking from head to toe waiting for it to arrive, standing with other people queuing to get in the lift and thinking, 'You have no idea how terrified I am.'”

“Giving birth is an overwhelming experience. You feel joyous, exhausted, thrilled, desperate, excited and terrified all at once.”

“One of the worrying aspects of anxiety is you start to think, 'It's what makes me interesting or funny.' But it's actually boring being anxious.”

“I developed health anxiety - hypochondria.”

“I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I have no accurate sense of what I actually look like. I've seen myself on television, but that's not me being me, but me being whichever character I'm playing that day.”

“My husband is very critical, but he's a film producer. So when he says he likes me in something I know he really means it.”

“Sometimes you meet someone and you think they understand people on a different level from everyone else.”

“I lose my sense of humour watching shows that are made up entirely of clips of people hurting themselves.”

“If people recognise me they tend to know me for different things.”

“The claustrophobia has always been there, so in that sense it's made a significant impact but, by and large, I don't let it impact on my life most of the time. So I don't let it affect my work hugely.”

“When it comes to clothes, I think I subconsciously dress for the occasion. 'When I go on Have I Got News For You,' say, I wear sharp suits to boost my confidence because it's quite a male environment. But I can also be 'actressy,' as my daughter calls it - a bit more showbiz.”

“People are very forgiving in my job of neurotic individuals.”

“My grandfather took my mum and her siblings on driving holidays to Europe when they were growing up. When he died and left her a bit of money, she decided to spend it on a family holiday. So we piled into the car and drove to France, Germany and Switzerland.”