All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

I'm passionate about history and there's no more historic place than London. We're sitting on a thousand years of history and you can smell it as you're walking around the streets.

I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion