If You Chase Something Too Desperately, It

As Soon As I See Period Costume, I Turn Off. It's Like Hearing Drama On Radio 4.

To Me, I Like And Understand Ritual And I Think It Is Important. Things That We Do That Give Us Comfort Are Important. Like Christmas, I Like To Go Into A Church And Hear The Carols Sung. There's A Comfort Of Actually Going Inside Of A Church, I Find Them Serene. They're Unchanging.

When Americans Talks About Europeans, They Are Thinking Britain And The Rest Of Europe. When We [ Britains] Talk About Europeans, We Talk About Everywhere Else.

I Wasn't A Naturally Confident, Extravert, Outgoing Person.

I Am Not A Politician Going Around Bragging About Family Values Or Putting Myself On Some Ridiculous Virtuous Pedestal. I Write Comedy. And I Am An Actor. I Am Not Going To Solve The Nation's Problems. I Don't Actually Spend My Life In The Way The Tabloids Like To Think I Do. I Actually Spend 95 Percent Of It Writing Comedy. Sober. Well, Nearly Sober Anyway.