“As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always class...” — Miranda Hart Quote

“As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.'”

“People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'”

“Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.”

“I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.”

“I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and orange dungarees. That, combined with a perfectly round pudding-bowl haircut, made me look, on a good day, like a cross between Ann Widdecombe, one of the Flower Pot Men, and a monk.”

“I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.”

“Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.”

“Seth Meyers is highly overrated as a comedian.”

“I am not a comedian, I am an actor, and what makes an actor brilliant is his versatility.”

“I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?”

“In India, big stars like Akshay Kumar or Salman Khan do comedy and serious films and we call them great actors. But when it comes to actors of my stature, people rush to typecast me as a comedian without giving a look to all my work.”

“No comedian's wife thinks he's funny. The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple of years.”