"There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish."
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"There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic."
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"I know there are certain men that hate women or don't like women, and in order to make women feel small, they tend to isolate them when they bully them. And women are often humiliated by it and feel they can't do anything about it. So my advice to women would be: there's always support around for those sorts of things and if you feel you're isolated in any way, or being bullied, you must talk to someone about it."
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"What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully."
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"My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that."
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"My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed."
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"My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool."
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"Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy."
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"I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving."
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"The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really."
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"Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone."
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"Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label."
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"Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan."
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"Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny."
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"No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it."
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"The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet."
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"There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber."
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"I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight."
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"I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work."
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"I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that."
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