I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

To me, I like and understand ritual and I think it is important. Things that we do that give us comfort are important. Like Christmas, I like to go into a church and hear the carols sung. There's a comfort of actually going inside of a church, I find them serene. They're unchanging.

I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.