The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary- ordinary people and their struggle. There's nothing as interesting as real life out your window. You walk down the street for half an hour, I'll give you half an hour of drama.

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

I can't find someone funny whom I don't like. Hitler told great jokes. I didn't find it funny at all.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

It's a privilege to be in such a great category of people and... I don't believe in God, so I'd like to thank dogs. Dogs have given me everything.

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.