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.

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.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

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

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

Marketing is what gets you noticed.

What directors of television drama constantly tell you is 'Don't act it. Don't try. Don't emphasise that word'. Whereas with someone like Blackadder, even though he's a relatively low key character in a way, he did relish the lines that he had and the words that he was given, with a lot of inflection.