The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

I can never forgive God for having invented the French

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.