You get interviewed when you're out promoting something.

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.

People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.