The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

Personally, I'd like to become a person who never loses her passion and always has a dream to follow.

The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.

I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.

It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.

It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.

Woodfall wasn't deliberately telling working-class stories, but John Osborne and other writers who were involved with them were writing those stories, which had never really been written before. The working-class person always had to have an accent before, was often a joker, and peripheral. At Woodfall, they were driving the film.

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