I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

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.

Johnny English is someone who really means well it's just that he's not as good as he thinks he is, and I think that maybe that's the British male in a nutshell.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

[Maigret] is more internal. I think if we made more of these I might let him out a bit.

Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.