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" A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That's luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that's a disgusting attitude, revolting. "
People
Time
School
" All of my friends are oddities. "
Friends
" As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto fringe channels: BBC Two, HBO, Channel 4. "
Artist
People
See
" Believe it or not, I work out regularly. "
Believe
Out
Work Out
" Comedy is easy for me, but with drama, I don't know... it's still the Holy Grail. "
Drama
Easy
Know
" Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are. "
Trying
You
Unhappy
" Ego is hilarious - especially the vanity of a comedian. As soon as you see one start worrying about how cool he is or about how many stadiums he can fill, he stops being funny. "
Start
Cool
Ego
" Even I can't talk about myself for an hour. "
Talk
Myself
Even
" Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me. "
Stage
Educated
Me
" Everything I do is somehow rooted in humanity. It's always about people; it's always about ego. It's always about desperation. It's quite existential. You know, 'Am I leading a good life?' That might be because I'm an atheist, and I think this is all we've got, so you better be nice. And have fun. "
Have Fun
Good
Fun
" Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you're a successful comedian or actor, then you're a famous one. But it's not the driving force. It's a by-product. "
Fame
Famous
Successful
" Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for one, just because you have the right to say anything, it doesn't mean you have to. "
Important
Me
Speech
" Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it. "
Honor
Gift
You
" How many times have we seen reality celebrities fall from grace - often through no fault of their own - and then go on a show like 'Celebrity Big Brother' and say, 'I want to show the public a different side of me.' And I'm screaming at the telly going, 'This is not therapy. This is voyeurism!' "
Brother
Fall
Grace
" Humor is to get us over terrible things. "
Get
Humor
Over
" I always do a little bit of improv. I did some of 'The Office,' a tiny bit in 'Extras,' a bit more in 'Derek.' "
Little
Improv
Office
" I am myself sometimes, and I do state my opinions, but not in a comedy routine and not in my character. There always has to be some sort of layer to it. "
Myself
Layer
I Am
" I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing. "
Sheep
Clothing
Am
" I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That was just who I was. "
Joke
Butt
Take
" I didn't know I was poor, growing up, because everyone was in the same boat. I couldn't have bikes. It never really bothered me, but I could have any book. I loved school; I loved learning. Yeah, I never cared for possessions. I still don't, really. "
Boat
Book
Learning
" I didn't like noisy cinemas when I wasn't famous. "
Like
Famous
Noisy
" I'd much rather eat exactly what I want, and then burn it off, than diet. "
Eat
Diet
Burn
" I'd never tried as hard with anything as I did with 'The Office,' and it was one of the things I'm proud of. I wasn't trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn't have been prouder of it. "
Proud
Famous
Late
" I don't believe in ghosts or ESP or elves... or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a lump in my throat when I listen to Vaughan Williams. "
Believe
Spiritual
God
" I don't care whether people say, ''The Office' is rubbish, 'Extras' is worse, 'Flanimals' is a waste of time. He's not funny; he never has been. I hate him.' I don't mind that at all. In fact, not only do I expect it, I celebrate it, because I think the haters are really important. "
Time
People
Think
" I don't do karaoke. I don't dance, even at weddings. I'm the grumpy one sitting down drinking wine. "
Grumpy
Wine
Dance
" I don't do one-liners, because you don't learn anything about that comedian. "
Because
Anything
About
" I don't know what Trump has to do to lose his supporters. It's like a religion. He's a school bully. "
Religion
He
Know
" I don't know why other people are concerned about other people's lives that much. "
Why
People
Other
" I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these immigrants?' and they get a round the applause. I think, 'Well that's not a joke. That's just your biased opinion.' "
Go
Immigrants
Opinion
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