When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.

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.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.

The British fans are liable to suddenly be talking to you about something that you don't know how you got into the conversation. I think it's something to do with the fact that they've been watching you for so many years sort of you telling your story.