I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and the city was awash with guns, and crime, and racketeering, and all sorts of hangovers from a very difficult time in French history. So it's an interesting time to be a policeman.