When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what you're really good at, what you're kinda good at, what you're okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you're capable of, it's just a matter of opportunity.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.

When the sun is shining, make hay, because it would be sunset on my career at some point, and when it is, I want to be exhausted.

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

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

Let me demonstrate. When you greet a friend this is the duration of the kiss that's acceptable. "Hi, good to see you - yeah." When you make a mistake and stay too long at the lips, this is how long it is. "Hi, how are you? Good to see you." And that's what happened. It was like, "Uh-oh, what was that? Oh."