I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

I have a very good memory for scripts. I can watch a show I like once, then remember about 90% of the script. But ask me who was in it, and I wouldn't have a clue.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.

I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.