I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.

- Nina Conti

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

- Nina Conti

I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

- Nina Conti

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

- Nina Conti

The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.

- Nina Conti

My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft.

- Nina Conti

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

- Nina Conti

Because I'm around comedians all the time, in my downtime I tend not to watch comedy. Something the whole family enjoys is 'You've Been Framed!' It s…

- Nina Conti

I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to…

- Nina Conti