What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it.

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are done.

My favourite song of Elton's is... it's a tricky one for me. I'm a proper fan and I've probably seen him in concert about a dozen times before I even met him. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, which isn't in this film... but whenever I see him, I always tell him that Passengers is my favourite song because it's one of his least auspicious ones.