Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role..

People ask could I have written the show I wrote in 1990 now, and I don't think I could. I think it's much easier to offend people nowadays. People h….

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the refere….

You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman..

In the "Absolutely Fabulous" show, it's a fairly dysfunctional family, but they're not women who are constantly in search of a man. They don't live c….

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world..

I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone roun….

Lacroix has been fantastic. He's very nice. He gets the joke, and I think that's a good thing..

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would ha….

It makes me a bit sad that, if anything, that people seem to want to go back to an old model of normality, and sitcoms seem to want to be about ordin….

I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching..

The biggest thing is online shopping. So that you don't have to dress up, go down Bond Street or Rodeo or wherever, go and be intimidated by shop ass….

I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say,….

Instant coffee is just old beans that have been cremated..

I think people love to be noticed, they love to feel included. A lot of people are flattered if you, you know, if you make jokes about them, or I thi….

I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was ….

The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They ….

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering..

I think TV companies don't take as many risks any more, it's a bit more prescriptive. There are more channels but there seems to be actually less mai….

Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anyt….

I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it's on e….