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That was liquid football

Got my fungal foot powder? Ah, it's a lifesaver, you know. I'd effectively be disabled if it weren't for these.

If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

I'm gonna hump ya. Like Deputy Dog ... Would hump ya.

I don't go to premieres, unless I'm contractually bound to.

It is not true that sex degrades women ... if it is any good.

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

I want my work to be judged, not me.

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

There were days when we used to say, what was in today's paper is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.When I became successful, I enjoyed myself a little.

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.

If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.

What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.

My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

We're all a bit of a dick. It's the human condition. Nothing to be afraid of.

I'm really encouraged by Pope Francis, because I think his attitude is totally laudable.

I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

Far from being this big, booming voice, the Daily Mail is just a little man behind a curtain.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

I'm 47, my girlfriend's 33; she's 14 years younger than me, back of the net!

I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.

IT'S OUR IMPERFECTIONS THAT MAKE US VULNERABLE, MAKE US INTERESTING. HOW CAN I MAKE MYSELF A BIT OF AN ASSHOLE AND STILL HAVE HUMANITY ABOUT IT?

I'm getting older , so I'm quieting down a bit.

The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.

I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms.

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on.

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of sadness.

Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course ... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater.

You really have got lots of issues! Yeah, of 'What Car Magazine'!

Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.

Hitler was nice to dogs

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them.

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

A woman wearing a revealing dress will always be sexier than a naked woman.

I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.

I am lucky to be in a profession that is not age dependent.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.

It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.