By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family - it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner; everyone knows everyone and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to sit.

The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!

A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

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