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" I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch. "
Robert Webb
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Window
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" It was quite an honour when 'New Woman' magazine voted me 88th sexiest man in the world. I think I was one in front of David Cameron. "
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" There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget. "
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" When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the eyes growing and darkening, that kind of thing. I suppose it would be easier if I weren't an actor, but I am fairly philosophical about it. "
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" It's odd because some actors are very scared of comedians. "
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" If I hadn't got into comedy, I wouldn't have met Abbey, my wife, and I wouldn't have my two girls, and the whole thing unravels. That's the thing about being basically - whisper it quietly - happy, is that you don't really want to change anything, because once you start changing stuff, then what you've got all disappears. "
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" If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd just drum his fingers and go, 'When? How long is that going to take?' "
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" I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times. "
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" I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn't go well until I got to college where, suddenly, there were different sorts of humans. "
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Like
" I'm knackered. I'm knackered all the time. My stupid, tiny children wake me up at 5:48 A.M. every single morning. "
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" Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist. "
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" Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh. "
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Amazing
Best
" Like most men, I can't say I am thrilled my hair's falling out, but then, if I really cared, I suppose I would wear a wig, get transplants, or start taking special pills, so I am obviously just putting up with it. "
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Start
Special
Men
" I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more. "
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Driving
I Can
More
" I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure. "
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Weird
Character
Flaws
" I don't care where you went to school. There - have I made your day? No? All right, I'll go further: I also don't care what your dad did for a living or how your mum voted. Nor do I mind whether you ate your tea in front of the telly, dinner at the kitchen table, or supper in the dining room. "
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Tea
School
Dinner
" The only thing I've cooked while entertaining is stir-fry. "
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The Only Thing
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" The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men. "
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Strong
Men
Idiots
" To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with. "
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Good
Actor
Comedy
" My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better. "
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Say
Always
" I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is. "
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Term
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" One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other? "
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People
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" Do I wake up every day and thank God that I live in 21st-century Britain? Of course not. But from time to time, I recognise it as an unfathomable privilege. "
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Live
" When I was 15, if Stephen Fry had advised me to trim my eyebrows with a Flymo, I would have given it serious consideration. "
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Eyebrows
Me
Serious
" We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish. "
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Think
Often
" On 'EastEnders,' if someone gets surprising news on the phone, the scene ends with them looking at their handset in amazement. No one in real life does that. "
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Life
" I'm a huge, huge fan of Chris Morris. I think he's a genius, and it is not a word I use very often. I think he's fantastic. "
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" We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it. "
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Comedy
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" I'm feeling around for what happens in a post-'Peep Show' world. "
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Feeling
Happens
" I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny. "
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Say
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" Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche. "
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Wrong
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