“People don't realise what a nice thing it is for an actor to go to a j...” — Katherine Parkinson Quote

People don't realise what a nice thing it is for an actor to go to a job where they know or like everybody, because you're so often having to do new beginnings, starting off on set with people you don't know, having to introduce yourself and make friends.

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.

When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage.

I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I'd rather pull out my own eyelids.

Not only did I have the freedom and control to introduce Dolly as a regular performer, but back then, radio was much friendlier to new recording artists.

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.

Every time I introduce myself, I'm reminded where I came from.

It's nice to introduce Vidya Balan to the Tamil audience.

We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of course we want to introduce new music, but we also want to play the songs people want to sing along with.