Marketing Is What Gets You Noticed.

The One Thing I Would Never Wish It To Be Thought Is That You Play Serious Roles In Order To Achieve Some Sort Of Respectability Which You Can't If You're Playing Comedic Roles.

The Good Thing About Those Original Credit Card Commercials Was That They Were Very "filmic", They Were Like Little Movies, So It Wasn't A Big Step To Think Well Maybe We Could Make A Big Movie Using This Character, Which We Eventually Did.

You're About As Useful As A One-legged Man At An Arse Kicking Contest.

I'm Not A Naturally Funny Man. I Find That I Can Only Be Funny, If I Become Someone Else.

I Like To Relish Words And Sentences, And Phraseology, And There's Not Much Facility For That [playing Maigret].