If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater.

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of sadness.

I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.

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.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.