I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely.

My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.

To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.

In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.

I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it's what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years.

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.