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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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"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."
Ideas

"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

"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

"In actual life I am a grumpy old bag."
Life

"I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first."
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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."
Home

"I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up."
Lesbian

"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

"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 want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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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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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
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"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
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"My painting does not come from the easel."
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"I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting."
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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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"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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