But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

Marketing is what gets you noticed.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

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

Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.