We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.

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.

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

It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

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.