When you're working from home and you've got children, a big night out is going to Pizza Express down the road.

I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies.

I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married. I don't do the chat rooms anymore, but I have become completely addicted to Ebay.

My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.

What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.

I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn't make much of an effort.

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

As a child, growing up in Hampstead, North London, I was shockingly fair-skinned. Holidays involved me spending the second and third day face-down on a bed, shrieking should anyone touch my blistered skin.

My teens and 20s were spent lying on sheets of tinfoil in the weak English sun, covered in baby oil. In Greece and France I would burn, then turn a dark brown.

I had just got married when I started writing my fourth novel. I'd come back from honeymoon, moved into our first house - a gorgeous little carriage house in London - and made my office on the third floor, overlooking the treetops in North West London.

In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to publicize the book, regretting I had opened my life up for all to see.

I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.

I no longer think you can live without passion.

I am not someone who's very good at looking after herself, and I am also not someone who goes on holiday very often.

My favorite part of speaking at events has never been the speaking, but the reading of my books.

I would love to do the therapist on 'Two and a Half Men' again or just work with Charlie Sheen.

Will Ferrell in 'Talladega Nights.' He's a very generous performer. He's kind of just one of the guys, but his name happens to be above the title.

You know 'Ninotchka?' I recommend it. It's kind of a mess, too. It was before, you know, we got slick editing tools, so it kind of chops along.

My brother was listening to his transistor radio. He kept switching the earpiece from one ear to the other, which I thought was his idea of a joke. 'You can't do that,' I said. 'You can only hear out of one ear.' 'No, I can hear out of both,' he answered. And that was how I discovered I was deaf in my right ear.

I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.

I wanted to do something where I could hang my hat.

I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all.

I'm a character actress, and my particular brand is more mature, so I had to wait until my age caught up with the tricks in my little arsenal.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

'Zoolander.' Yeah, I mean, I love Ben Stiller; he's just a brilliant guy. And I love Will Ferrell in it, too. His character, to me, is just insane, and he made such huge choices, and he's such a weirdo!

I love Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' - he's very good. And the 'Modern Family' cast just cracks me up.

I can be kind of razor sharp in my disapproval.

I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on that if you kind of let life roll in at your feet, you will get a lot of great stuff if you are just aware and open to it.

Charlie Sheen was such a pro.

I watch very selective television. I watch 'Mad Men,' and I usually watch a season at a time.

I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is 99% of it.

Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.

I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used to doing.

I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.

I think a little tidbit I can give you is that I grew up with basically everything handed to me, except for my career. I worked for that.

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

I didn't want to be gay. I wanted to be... I wanted an easy life. And you know what? I am gay, and I still have an easy life.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older; I am, in fact, at this very moment, gaining my looks.

Television is really fertile ground, and it's because of platforms like Netflix and Hulu and, of course, the cable channels like HBO and Showtime.

I became quite a diva, and intolerant, and people knew when I was not pleased. Some people were afraid of me, and other people just kind of blew me off. But I wasn't making any friends. I only had one person who remained my friend, and he was my boyfriend for a while. Even though I told him I was gay, he was like, 'That's alright.'

I love Jennifer Saunders, the 'Absolutely Fabulous' creator.

I've been in Chicago for every Christmas of my life.

If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.

When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve.

I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.