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"If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush."
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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."
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"I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up."
Lesbian
"I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter."
Sister
"It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon."
Family
"If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush."
Painting
"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."
Television
"Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it."
Night
"I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine."
People
"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."
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"I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it."
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