I used to ask him to show me various little steps that we would do in our routine, and he'd do them and I wouldn't recognize them as the thing I was trying to do.

a routine procedure that I was told would not be threatening to my vocal chords.

It's respecting their daily routine that they had in their community. We are structuring the staff around them.

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.

I was given the book to read first of all and I found it totally inspiring, arousing and very moving. I literally couldn't put it down. There is something intoxicating about Marie's belief, not just in herself, but in the children at the school and in humanity - we need that!