For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

At the moment, I'm certainly not thinking 'never again', but neither am I thinking 'I can't wait to play that part again'. I'm somewhere in between.

It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.

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

I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].

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