Zitat des Tages von Tamsin Greig:
A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.
Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.
Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.
I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
I know I don't fit in in L.A. because I look my age.
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
I think I'm a bit odd.
Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.
Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.
Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.
Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.