“I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.”
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“The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.”
“Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.”
“The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.”
“I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.”
“I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.”
“I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.”
“People can forgive each other.”
“I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.”
“I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.”
“I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.”
“Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.”
“There's something people do to you when they bully you that makes you feel like you're on your own. But don't keep things inside, it's really damaging if you do.”
“When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.”
“People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.”
“My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.”
“I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.”
“I like to shock people.”
“I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.”
“I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.”