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.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!