48 Quotes by Catherine Tate

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant,

It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.