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'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.

I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.

I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.