

As my mother always said, "Katherine, if we all liked the same thing, we’d all be married to your father." I’m often asked how I developed my lurid level of courage and assurance and for tips on how others can match.

I embrace the reality that you just can’t please everyone, so you might as well put yourself out there and have a laugh. How audacious is that? I can always take a joke, I don’t waste time worrying about things I can’t control. Whatever strangers think of me is fine with me. But mostly, I’m just sat eating pickles and being nice to some dogs.

"I’ve come to accept that being audacious is a gift I can’t escape." People "know" my on-stage comedy persona or my scripted ballsy characters and wrongly assume that I must stomp around all day in designer dresses eviscerating those who dare to cross my path. From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and dangerously astute handbook of life instruction.
