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I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.

I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.

I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.

Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going, 'Ha-ha.'

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

I've never been a 16-year-old girl.

I'm not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais' stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen's things. But I'm not an expert on them. I've seen them once.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and ... I'm not really.

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

It takes me ages to write stuff.

I met Kim Kardashian in a nightclub once, and she was really nice. Kanye was with her, but he didn't speak. He just looked at me.

People are always nice; I never get anything mean said to me on the street.

I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.

I have a massive guilt thing about money.

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.

I really like Jeff Lewis and 'Flipping Out' and 'Interior Therapy.' I don't know why I'm obsessed with American real estate and renovation.

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

I think surprises make TV entertaining.

Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

British comedy fans go crazy.

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.