I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.