On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You have to use the conventions, that's why Kevin (Turvey) works so well.

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.

I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

I don't think there's anything out there I can be afraid of.

I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.