I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I de…

- Catherine Tate

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

- Catherine Tate

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously …

- Catherine Tate

By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was …

- Catherine Tate

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

- Catherine Tate

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

- Catherine Tate

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

- Catherine Tate

I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a …

- Catherine Tate

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

- Catherine Tate