To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

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.