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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The best script in the world doesn't work perfectly when you actually act it out. That's a law. That's a given. So you have to play with everything. And the more fun you have with it, the better the finished product. "

" I love 'The Godfather' and 'Casablanca' - great stories, acted well, made well. "

" 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. "

" I think being nice is more important than being clever. "

" Making people laugh is easy for me. I'm quite proud of that. But I'm prouder of silencing an audience for a minute because they're thinking about something. "

" I was never ambitious. I was never ambitious at school. "

" 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. "

" Proper stupidity is fascinating. "

" 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. "

" Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are. "

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

" Your reputation is still the most important thing that you've got. "

" 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. "

" Stupidity without malice isn't horrible; some people can't help it. "

" I don't know what Trump has to do to lose his supporters. It's like a religion. He's a school bully. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't mind what people say about me as long as it's an opinion or the truth. If someone says, 'He's the worst comedian in the world,' that's fine. If someone says, 'His face makes me want to punch the TV,' that's fine. But if they say, 'Oh, and I know for a fact he hunts squirrels,' I go: no, no, no... that's a lie. "

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

" If I just cut out the food, I'd have a six-pack. I'd look like Matthew McConaughey. "

" I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke. "

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

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

" What makes 'Derek' a different kind of sitcom - if it is even a sitcom - is its sincerity. "

" Stephen Merchant looks like a Muppet. I mean, he looks like Beaker. "

" I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes. "

" Why buy a book when you can join a library. "

" I like flying to New York from London. It's like a day off for me. No phone or e-mails. Food, wine, iPod, movies, snoozing. "