For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.