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My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

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I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

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Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

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I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it.

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My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.

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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

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I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.

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I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.

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It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

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Men are fantastic - as a concept.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Comedian

Born: May 3rd, 1957

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