I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

That was liquid football

All drama teachers are very effusive, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical. Those people don't work in banks and they don't work for pharmaceutical companies. They teach drama, or they may be theatre directors. That's why I love people who are openly gay in theatre, because they have license to do what they like, and there's a kind of artistic liberal tolerance thing that goes on.

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

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The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith.