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" My life is divided up into before I had kids and after. "

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" The acting life can be quite scary, really. "

" I'm not very funny at all in real life. "

" I am a man who dreams of culture. "

" Films do have suspense and tensions and scares and jumps, and I like to write things that have both in them, comedy and horror, but sometimes they are hard to balance. "

" I could say I'm a writer or that I'm a musician but I don't really do music; I do music to go with things I'm developing. Then I do act in a few things, but I'm not really an actor. I'm not a comedian, but I am known for comedy. I just don't know. I feel like I'm a slightly interdisciplinary jack of all trades. "

" We should send a load of bad celebrities to colonise Mars. They would have to mate in space, and then their children would be sent back to Earth in 50 years' time. "

" We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical. "

" I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas. "

" Laughter's good, but it's not love. It's one aspect. One emotion you're eliciting from your audience. "

" In comedy terms, usually when the weather's bad, it goes much better. When it's sunny, people don't come to see comedy gigs because they're all really happy and don't need cheering up. "

" People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too. "

" Musicals are just funny to me. "

" Life without music would be a mistake. "

" I can act with either eye, but you've got to be twice as good as an actor to act with one eye. You need to put all your emotions just through one eye and really punch it out of that eye. I found it quite difficult to do at first, and then I found a technique that allowed me to act with one eye, which I patented. "

" Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that. "

" Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating. "

" Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things. "

" The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up. "

" If you come away from a show thinking of an image, that's as good as remembering a joke. A lot of those shows, like 'The Office,' they are brilliant, but they're not visually interesting. "

" When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can. "

" I find the pressure to be funny when you're being interviewed live - quite intense. "

" I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter. "

" This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There's a 'flavour of the month' aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating. "

" I don't do stand-up anymore. "

" I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't give the journalist any eye contact. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any press at all. "

" You don't need a high concept to make a great film, of course. 'Withnail & I' is not - it's probably not much on paper, but it's one of the funniest films ever made. "

" I've been a horror fan pretty much in the sense that my sense of horror and my sense of humor were both equally kindled by films as a kid. "

" For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world. "