That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.

[As a kid] I did enjoy making people laugh but I was also attracted to funny people. I'm [still] quite happy to not be the one trying to make other people laugh. I'm happy laughing at someone else. I enjoy laughing and I'll happily be the one just laughing all night if you can make me laugh.

I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.