I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.
Craig CharlesIt's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.
Craig CharlesThere was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.
Craig CharlesOnce journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.
Craig CharlesI have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.
Craig CharlesWe were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.
Craig CharlesComing from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.
Craig CharlesCritics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
Craig CharlesIt's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.
Craig CharlesBritish fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.
Craig Charles