With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.

If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.

I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that.

No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.

I was okay with singing. I always sneak a song into everything I do. Dancing, a little awkward. Little embarrassed about that. I don't move well. But I was with a frog, so it doesn't matter. I'll do anything with a frog, that's my motto. He's great with tap-dancing or flap-dancing on my head. So no one's going to be looking at me when we're doing that dance. They're going to be saying, 'There's a frog dancing'.

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.