I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.

I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!

On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You have to use the conventions, that's why Kevin (Turvey) works so well.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence.

Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all...

I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love.

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

You can't lose sight of what you did to get there

When youre a kid, youre only exposed to whats going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.