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.

I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.

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

I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

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

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.

I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a roll. Versus improv, which I hate. Put it all together. They're more vignettes. Improv makes me slightly anxious because I feel for them.