I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.

The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

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

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.