All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

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

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.