I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.
Sue Perkins
The only time I am not talking is when I am dancing. I look like an electrocuted octopus.
You're never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They're completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher taste: it hasn't got that bass-note beefiness.
Being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me.
My dad was a keen philatelist and, when he died, he left me an album he'd curated over some 40 years. He'd handpicked every item, saying each one reminded him of me. I opened it to discover the pages were full of beige stamps bearing the image of George V. Take from that what you will.
Long hair doesn't look good on me because my hair is fine.
I have slight attention-span issues, so I will often wander off, and then I will be alerted - in inverted commas - when the smoke alarm goes off. So that's how I work out if a bake is finished.
A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an audience, and the mercurial brilliance of a host of musicians, and shape them all to his or her interpretative ends.
I've learnt how to develop routines. To play with each bit. To enjoy expanding on it. To get used to the stage being mine.
I'm a good cook, but I can't bake.
If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you're heading for disaster.
I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession - either as a doctor or nurse or vet.
I had an operation on my cornea when I was little, and remember being deeply enamoured with the team who looked after me.
I don't understand people who travel purely gastronomically, who book a Michelin-starred restaurant three months in advance and suddenly find themselves in Copenhagen or Barcelona with a zeitgeist plate of snail porridge.
I don't think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it's like to feel odd.
Because I'm busy, I don't sit down to a lot of big formal meals - unless I've got mates round, in which case I'll cook something.
In Hebrew, the name Susan means 'graceful lily' - in Khmer, it means 'girl with the bad puns,' and in ancient Aztec, it translates as 'she with the cockerel hair and dirty glasses.'
I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.
For me, a great meal is a collision of company, environment, ambient temperature, the waiters, where you are emotionally.
I ended up in TV because I have no ability to do anything else. I have an agent who tells me where I have to be when.
I always like to think that I'm accountable for everything I do, but I'll never understand how I did some of the things that I did.
I'm very impatient.
When I was 18, I went to the East Coast of America, got mugged, and came straight home.
I wanted to set 'Heading Out' in a real world, a concept I originally struggled with, as I don't have a proper job.
Parents care deeply.
Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.
I have a voice inside. A voice that I am forever trying to silence. A voice that calls me in when I want to be out, playing. A voice that is always sad. That is always terrified. That always wants to sit in the darkened room, away from noise and movement and colour - away from any experience that could prove to be challenging.
I always assumed that the reason I've never run a marathon is because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line.
Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.
One day I would want to be an Egyptologist, the next day an ornithologist. I was an exhausting child.
I have a freelancer's mentality: if I leave the country for more than 24 hours on a non-work trip, I believe I will never be employed again.
I was an international krumper at one time. I can't talk about it, really, because when you've lived for krump like I have, when you get a bit older and you move away from it, it's hard.
I like '24.' But I have to wait until it comes out, then watch it all in 24 hours. You really let yourself go in that one day; you just eat crisps and wander around madly ranting.
The great thing about ageing is that your eyesight deteriorates at the same rate as your face. So I can't see how bad things are getting.
Let's face it: I'm not a looker. I'm a scruff. But I have embraced my scruffiness. We're happy together.
Googling yourself is like staring at a flame and then putting your hand in it.
I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.
My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood, but it's a great way to start a conversation.
I love watching birds of prey and stags.
I don't want my life to just be about me.
I can put on a £1,000 item of clothing and make it look a mess.
I'm so in love with David Dimbleby.
A good 'Bake Off,' for me, is just about cakes and nice people - and that's a successful show.
Food attracts a kind of nerdishness like any other sort of passion, and 'Cooks' Questions' is for those people who want to find out more.
I'd never been one for leaving the comforts of home. That person wasn't me; I didn't spend my formative years youth-hostelling round Rwanda or climbing Everest in a tie-dye playsuit to raise awareness of something or other.
'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.'
You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.
My mum has recorded all my programmes and not watched one. My dad says he finds it embarrassing.
I am happier with my face since I started wearing glasses at 27, because they punctuate it. They also hide one of my biggest defects, my baggy eyes.
It was a privilege to experience life beyond the cliches and to witness the vibrancy, chaos, and multiculturalism of Bengal first hand.
