"I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash."

"I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare."

"If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't."

"The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny."

"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."

"I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'"

"It feels good to have your work respected again."

"Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi."