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

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

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.

Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.

Challenge your assumptionsand identify your limiting beliefs.Every time you find yourself thinkingthat you can’t do something, ask yourself, ‘Why not?

Opportunity comes to pass-not to pause.

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

I can do a reddish-brown or brown lip, but not a bright red. I just don't look good in it. Over the years you learn certain things that don't look good on you, and that's one of them for me.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

It's amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright.