The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

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?

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.