"To me history as taught at school was like all those memories of galleries, castles and historic monuments that I did…"

"[On Jeremy Corbyn] I'm very excited by Jeremy's rise [...] Although you can see all the forces of evil and their lies…"

"[On Jeremy Corbyn] It is extraordinary. It is an amazing thing to have someone leading a major party who is personall…"

"[On his early "comic persona of an angry man in a too tight suit"] I do feel very proud of that, as we did banish rac…"

"The comedian Alexei Sayle's 24 July 2014 interview on BBC Radio Two [with Jeremy Vine] was a strong example of the de…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"Fairies are very shy creatures and prefer to keep themselves hidden from human eyes"

"If you look very carefully, you may see a fairy in your garden"