Rose Matafeo

I've always been an anxious performer. I've never liked performing.

Being an aunty is the best - exactly what I wanted from this - someone to have ownership over but no obligation to take care of.

I can never enjoy anything in the moment. And, unfortunately, you live your life in the moment, and I find that incredibly difficult.

People have told me I've got no filter or I'm a bit of an over-sharer.

Part of making a relationship work is compromise and I think the idea of compromise in relationships is something that we lack in my generation.

When you have a kid, it is the death of a certain life, but it's also the start of a new version of it.

I'm very ambitious. I'm the kind of person who still feels as if they could win an Oscar. Albeit, with no evidence to support that expectation whatsoever.

I would hate to be a standup comedian for ever. It would not be good. It would be the worst.

Most of what I like doing in performing is connecting with an audience. What's the point of doing standup if you're not doing that?

The fact that I went back to New Zealand, a country where you are legally allowed to date, and I couldn't manage to get one - I was like, I'm done with this country. I'm fleeing back to London.

I wanted to make a TV show that I would want to watch and I naturally gravitated towards the genre of rom-com, because that's something that I have so much love for.

I'm never intently political about anything, I just speak my mind from my perspective.

But being in love - or actually just chasing boys who don't like me as much as I like them - for me is the ultimate thing.

I wouldn't say I always have the talent to do something - I think I definitely probably have a moderate amount of talent - but I can pretend to have confidence or, I guess, charisma... It's so hard to look at myself like that.

Being a comedian, all the stress is there in the moment of doing it. The rest of it is mint: you hang out with your mates, go to the arcades, go to the cinema in the daytime, it's like being a teenager all the time.

It's almost like I'm obsessed with being in love.

I'm highly anxious, ambitious, and very hard on myself.

I like dressing up when I can... but it's like when someone does my make-up or my hair and I feel uncomfortable or I'm wearing something weird, I just feel like it's not the best representation of myself.

Unfortunately we live in a world where I think women aren't actively encouraged or at least not empowered to make good work in every creative sphere, particularly in comedy.

Comedy is quite hard and it takes like a decade to figure out what kind of comedian you are, so don't quit.