Jealousy isn't something I do. I am not a jealous person.Collection: Jealousy
When I was about 24, I went to Reykjavik with Benedict Cumberbatch for a few days. We took a three-hour coach ride to a glacier and raced on snowmobiles at 60mph.
Elves, Eskimos and aliens are the type of girls I am attracted to. I've been going out with my current girlfriend for a year. She looks like a cross between an elf, an Eskimo and an alien, with a bowl haircut and little thin legs.
I wanted to be a prosthetic makeup artist after watching 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'.
I feel most relaxed when I am acting or writing.
I go to bed at 9.30pm and listen to Radio 4.
I wore a dress as a child for six months and I wouldn't take it off. I was three. I've seen the pictures.
A sketch show by its very nature is hit and miss.
My upbringing was very basic working-class on the outskirts of Nottingham. My mother, Glenis, was a nursery nurse, looking after special-needs children, and my father, Brian, became the manager of a lace factory after working his way up as an apprentice.
The first time I ever met posh people was when I went to Manchester University to study drama, but I couldn't care less about people's backgrounds - it's all down to the individual.
I was nine when I started getting laughs in a school comedy sketch one day, and acting became all I wanted to do. I'm sure my career choice was difficult for my parents: they would have had the usual parental neurosis about how tumultuous the business can be, with lots of actors out of work.
My first relationship at 15 made me really, really mature because it was so destructive and intense. We were inseparable for three years and I was completely and utterly besotted. But then it all fell apart and it took me a long time to get over it.
I can't remember a Christmas where I didn't have a rotten cold, and I always get one about two weeks into a job. I definitely get man flu - I'm not brave at all.
If I wake up after eight hours it's right; after nine I'm groggy.
Most dressing rooms are sterile and they feel like someone else's space. But over two weeks of previews, before the show officially opens, they transform - filling up with cards, flowers, home comforts.
A dressing room is both a personal space and a workspace. It changes with the flick of a switch: turn on the relay - the speaker linked to microphones in the auditorium - and you're at work; when that's off, it's your sanctuary.
I'm quite ritualistic about my preparation. I always shower before a show, even if I had one before leaving my flat.
Whenever I am not filming and not required to travel with work, I spend all my downtime in Scotland.
Budapest was very beautiful and spending the day under a canopy of Hungarian trees, on horseback, was fantastic.
I am not really a fan of beaches or lying by swimming pools, and as I have quite sensitive skin, the sun is my enemy.
There have been a lot of strong women who have had a huge influence on my career. I'm working with Imelda Staunton at the moment and she's definitely one of those women. And I would include Kathy Burke, Alison Steadman, Kylie Minogue and Catherine Tate as well.
My dad's a lifelong Notts County fan, but it didn't cross my mind to support his team, and I still feel bad about it. I'm a Tottenham fan because of a 1986 Panini sticker album.
I find it ever so archaic, chanting, but I can see why people do it. I love seeing people getting all their frustrations out for the week.
I played in goal for Notts County juniors. I liked that sense that goalkeepers were outsiders, mavericks. But I stopped when I realised I wasn't going to grow any more. I'm 5ft 7ins so I couldn't have been a professional.
I've always been a clothes horse, and I spend a lot of money on designers.
I won't leave the house without having a shower and, as much as it makes me a terrible anti-conservationist, I often have two a day.
I see clothes as an art form, and also a statement: no matter how vociferously people protest that they don't care what they wear, they sort of have to.
I always plan what I'm going to wear, although I hope my clothes say that I look really good and I've not thought about it! Ironing is part of the preparation, so I don't mind it.
TV's so quick. You make a choice and you do it, and if the director thinks that's wrong then you make another choice and you do it, and that's it.
I would go to Hollywood if something came in that I really wanted to do.
I wouldn't want to be a part of something that has gone off the boil a bit and isn't as good as the last series. I have confidence enough in my own ability to go on and do something else.
I go to the gym four times a week and play football about twice a week. I'm pretty active.
I always wanted to be an actor. I did drama at Manchester University and then had a stand-up comedy double act with a guy called Bruce MacKinnon.
No, I'm far too selfish to have a child. Also, I couldn't bear to have an ugly child. I'd have to be 100 per cent sure that the girl I had a child with was good-looking. You can never tell because you don't know what's going on while it's being fermented. You'd have to do a lot of research to check that they didn't have ugly genes.