The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.

I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.