Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take in front of the audience that you're going to do it again afterwards. A minute after you finish, you just go and do it again. So, there's that sort of safety net. And then if you made a little mistake or two, they'll go pick it up, so there's nothing to worry about.

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

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

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

years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.