“I work out in the Caribbean for half the year, playing a detective who's really into science. Anybody who knows me will tell you that's a dream come true. But it's tough for my family. We on...”
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“I work out in the Caribbean for half the year, playing a detective who's really into science. Anybody who knows me will tell you that's a dream come true. But it's tough for my family. We on...”
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“Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.”
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“Ricky Gervais has jokes about people with disabilities, but do I think that's a healthy thing? Yes, I really do, because he's chosen his targets very carefully, and he's thought about what h...”
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“I get dissatisfied really easily, and I have to constantly keep moving; I have to constantly keep doing things. I find it very hard to switch off.”
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“I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.”
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“One of the saddest things I've ever done is download 'I'm A Teenage Dirtbag' by Wheatus and play along with it with my headphones on. Oh, God. If you were to walk in and see me do that, you...”
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“Much as I respect Russell Brand's point of view, I'm in the opposite camp to him about voting. I think it's enormously important to engage with the electoral process.”
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“For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an issue. She's kind of anti-English... anti-imperialist.”
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“I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.”
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“I was an early adopter of everything from Myspace to Twitter, and I think they're just fads, like CB radio.”
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“This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?”
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“You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each character has to be ruthlessly, faultlessly played. But live, you can hint at...”
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“L.A.'s hippies are actually quite scary - more like Hell's Angels than the Haight-Ashbury hippies of San Francisco.”
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“It's the classic thing - children's TV gets watched by everybody, not just children. 'Horrible Histories' is the sort of thing everyone watches.”
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“I'm very lucky, I had a very amicable separation and very amicable divorce, but it was still horrendous.”
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“I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.”
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“Personally, I think people need to get over this 'being offended' thing. Being offended does not give you the right to silence people. I get offended by things all the time - it's just part...”
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“I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.”
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“I got my first Mac in 1984. I've got an Airbook, iPad, iPhone, the lot. I love that blend of technology, creativity, and design.”
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“My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny Cash thing that trying to live a good life and be a good person are not necessar...”
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