The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can't if you're playing comedic roles.

I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

Marketing is what gets you noticed.

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.