I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce people into thinking about something serious. If you want to hit a beat in a drama, you can distract people with a little comedy, and you can punch them in the gut with some emotion.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.