If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

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

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand.

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

I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?