I Tend To Play Rather Odd Men.

To Criticize A Person For Their Race Is Manifestly Irrational And Ridiculous, But To Criticize Their Religion, That Is A Right. That Is A Freedom. The Freedom To Criticize Ideas, Any Ideas - Even If They Are Sincerely Held Beliefs - Is One Of The Fundamental Freedoms Of Society. A Law Which Attempts To Say You Can Criticize And Ridicule Ideas As Long As They Are Not Religious Ideas Is A Very Peculiar Law Indeed.

I Have A Problem With Porsches. They're Wonderful Cars, But I Know I Could Never Live With One. Somehow, The Typical Porsche People-and I Wish Them No Ill-are Not, I Feel, My Kind Of People. I Don't Go Around Saying That Porsches Are A Pile Of Dung, But I Do Know That Psychologically I Couldn't Handle Owning One.

I Think You're Bound To Get A Sense Of Any Character That You Play. It's Not Something You Often Do In Comedy.

I Have Always Worried About Things More Than I Should.

It's The Difficulty We Had With Mr. Bean, Actually, When It Went From Tv To Film. You Certainly Discover That You Need To Explain More About A Character.