Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going to be cut, and stuff like that, and whether or not you're going to wear a hat, and blah, blah, blah. But, when you're wearing a special costume, and of course, costume is probably the second ingredient in character, script being first, I always find that the costume does a lot to cement your character, to put it firmly in mind.

I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something.

I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.