I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?

What's interesting is a man with no facial hair is less intimidating than a man with facial hair, and a man who is bald is more intimidating than a man with hair.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was heartbroken, just completely devastated. To make ends meet we started selling off all our possessions.