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

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

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.

Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them.

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.