“I’d like to walk along that. Don’t worry, I won’t get drunk and fall in.”

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

I’m more inclined to linger in the science pages of ‘The Week’ magazine.

The thing I’d really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare’s Globe.

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

A foolproof plan for not getting a job.

Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Show up for your interview wearing flip flops.

I don’t want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

There’s a lot to do when you’re a kid – spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye – stuff to be getting on with.

I like pubs too, but it’s hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to.

I’m quite a curious person. I don’t mind being the one who doesn’t know things, a role I often play in QI.

I dont drive around London much.

But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear.

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

I’m not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I’m the publishers’ friend – I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think thats a real gift.

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.

It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‘Along Came Polly.’

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?