Jennifer Saunders

I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.

My job gives me the attention I'd otherwise crave.

I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.

The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.

I'm a walkawayer. If someone brings me a really crap meal in a restaurant I will tell them it's wonderful and then just never go to the restaurant again. I think that's the best way to do it generally, rather than sit and fight and annoy your head. Just pretend to enjoy it and then leave.

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.

I recommend a little dose of cancer to anyone.

Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.

When you are doing chemo, you have a load of time.

Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

I absolutely love Scotland. I'm always happy there.

My daughters related to something in the Spice Girls that made them feel better about being female. They truly started to believe girls could do anything. They could be fat, thin, anything they wanted to be.

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

I've never had Botox. But I like people to imagine I have.

'The Rocky Horror Show' was actually my first musical love.

I came to the Kardashians a bit late, and I'm still just gob-smacked. Who are these people?

The way certain men treat women is influenced by the Internet a lot.

I'm my own worst critic. I could tell the critics a thing or two about my shows.

I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting and decorating my house, buying some furniture.

Porsches are a great drive.

I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.