Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.