I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning home on compassionate leave. As a result, my mother had to get work, as a nurse, and at seven the RAF put me into a boarding school and ex-orphanage called the Royal Wolverhampton School.

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.