He who laughs most, learns best.

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.