I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up... off they went and they just deliver fantastic stuff.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ask the person who found you about what kind of people she was looking for before meeting you, as she may not know that she has found one of them already.

I always think 12 times before saying anything.

I really need a gin and tonic.

No one can tell time except approximately, time never stands still to be named.

I do a lot of comedy and I like that. I am happy doing funny films. I am often the straight person in a comedy, which is great as long as there are talented people to work with.

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

I've been the underdog in my life since I was a kid.

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.