 If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?' |
| The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting. |
| I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh. |
| I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from. |
| I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game. |
| I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. |
| For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard. |
