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" 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. "

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" I don't know why other people are concerned about other people's lives that much. "

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" 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. "

" You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke. "

" People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it. "

" Where there's a will - there's a relative! "

" The second series is always my favourite as a writer/director; you can hit the ground running... so that's fun. "

" 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. "

" Comedy is easy for me, but with drama, I don't know... it's still the Holy Grail. "

" I see my real job now as - never mind 'The Office,' 'Extras,' film career, Emmys - I want everyone in the world to know who Karl Pilkington is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always do a little bit of improv. I did some of 'The Office,' a tiny bit in 'Extras,' a bit more in 'Derek.' "

" 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. "

" I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes. "

" When I was growing up, I didn't like cheese. I had to wean myself onto cheese. "

" I think comedies should be short. I don't want to be self-indulgent; I don't want a two-hour comedy. "

" When I see a headline 'Guess who's going out with who?' I don't guess, and I don't click. "

" With Netflix, I browse; I watch documentaries about things I'd never dream of, but I think, 'I might as well.' "

" I've been lucky enough to be able to choose exactly where I want to live. "

" I'd much rather eat exactly what I want, and then burn it off, than diet. "

" Proper stupidity is fascinating. "

" Humor is to get us over terrible things. "

" I was very protective of my privacy. I didn't want people to write bad things about me that weren't true, because that's just not fair. Fifty percent of everything written about me is wrong. "

" I stand by 'I'm not going to do 'The Office' again.' That would be weird: all the same people sitting at the same desks at a paper merchant's in Slough. "

" I'm an optimist. "

" There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything. "

" I do the Golden Globes because they say I can say what I want. I wouldn't have that at the Oscars. "

" My dad was a laborer. And he used to get up at 5:30 every morning. He worked for 50 years of his life, in all weathers for, by showbiz standards, petty cash. I remind myself of that when I feel a little bit spoiled or hard done by. "