"Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discuss…"

"There is no me. I do not exist … There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed."

"If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am."

"People will swim through shit if you put a few bob in it."

"To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience."

"If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me."

"I'm a classic example of all humorists — only funny when I'm working."

"Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any s…"

"I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, "Why doesn't h…"

"[W]hile at first I felt like a new boy in his presence, I soon relaxed: he was so welcoming, cheery and easy to write…"