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You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one ... I would hope.

The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.

I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.

It's not often you get to hang out with someone you're really intrigued by. So when Will.i.am invited me to visit him at home, I couldn't resist.

There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.

I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.

I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.

Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I find it a great antidote ... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.

Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

My grandmother is a famous atlas.

I'm aware of my body.

I've always used my hair for whatever it is needed for. I had it an inch long and jet black for a Pinter play I did. Changes you completely.

I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.

I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.

I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather.

I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love.

I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

I can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted.

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.

As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.