“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.”

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

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.

Six million jobs in the US depend on trade with Mexico. Ten border states – six in Mexico and four in the United States – combined have the third or fourth largest economy in the world.

Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that’s 12 goals conceded

As we’re on the verge of a major $1 billion boost in our annual cash flows that we expect to come from three major projects Geismar, Gulfstar and the Keathley Canyon Connector all of which have reached the commissioning stage here in the fourth quarter.

Discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.

But I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.