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"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."
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"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."

"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."

"The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system."

"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."

"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."

"I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television."

"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"

"TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage."

"Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?"
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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."

"I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it."

"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."

"It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life."

"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."

"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."

"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."

"I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine."
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