Top 50 Quotes by Tamsin Greig

I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

I think I'm a bit odd.

I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?'

Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.