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I've always been a misfit.
I'm fascinated by Bollywood.
I just want to do good work.
I'm sick of environmentalism.
I'm as famous as I want to be.
There's nothing I won't attempt.
I think serial monogamy says it all.
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person.
Every character I do is based on someone I know.
I love documentaries, I like observing real people.
I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.
It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
I'm usually put off by performers when they get political
I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.
I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.
It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child
It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.
I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.
It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.
I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.
I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.
Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.
I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.
I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.
I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.
Did you know David Letterman was offered millions of dollars to do a commercial for dog food?
Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.
I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.
I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.
My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.
I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.
Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?
I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.
I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!
I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.
An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country.
There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving.
As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.
I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.
I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.
The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.
A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced.
You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.