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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every meal is so important and colours the rest of your day - my whole day can go into a spin if I make the wrong choice at lunchtime!
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
- Good Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've turned down all sorts of good things accidentally, too. I read the script for 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' and thought, 'This makes no sense.' Then I went to the cinema to see it. Well, what an idiot.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?
- Clowning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an issue. She's kind of anti-English... anti-imperialist.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very much wanted the perfect nuclear family, and I came from the perfect nuclear family, but like so many people, that isn't the way things have worked out.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children basically need one thing: to be played with.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been going bald since I was about 17. I'm still hanging on to my hair for dear life, but I do sometimes wonder - should I get a wig?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a 'suffer in silence' type; I'm a 'let's throw money at the problem' type - I've done reflexology, reiki, psychotherapy, counselling. I've never actually had analysis, but I'd like to try that sometime.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You meet every different kind of possible person from different ethnic and cultural background, and after you while, you realise it's all just people, isn't it?
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family did several house swaps with L.A. families. It was a dreadfully daring thing to do in the early 1980s; there was no Internet, so you had no idea of what you were getting into.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initially, the best thing about being in L.A. was the girls - they loved me. It was like being a pop star.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I'm there on business, I always add on a few extra days for pleasure.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
L.A.'s hippies are actually quite scary - more like Hell's Angels than the Haight-Ashbury hippies of San Francisco.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything in politics is so stage-managed.
- Donkey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I adored 'Drop the Dead Donkey.' That show defined Channel 4 at the time; it was so inventive and off the leash.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.
- Obsessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm obsessed with coffee.
- Life Is A
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work out in the Caribbean for half the year, playing a detective who's really into science. Anybody who knows me will tell you that's a dream come true. But it's tough for my family. We only get to see each other every two and a half to three weeks.
- Amazing Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was one of the amazing things about Doctor Who. Considering it is such an enormous charabanc, a centerpiece of international TV, it feels incredibly small when you are actually involved in it. It is very intimate, very small; it feels like a few people messing about with a camera.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was only in the second year of my Ph.D. that I started acting. I wasn't in school plays or anything; I was in bands, but I wasn't cool. There's no such thing as a cool physics person, is there?
- Nov 07, 2020
All men in their 40s want to be in rock bands, and I reserve the right to be in a pub band at some point.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the saddest things I've ever done is download 'I'm A Teenage Dirtbag' by Wheatus and play along with it with my headphones on. Oh, God. If you were to walk in and see me do that, you would really worry for me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to have a neck. Everyone else has a neck, but I never got one; I don't know what happened. I'm not asking for much: just some sort of separation between my head and my body would be great.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids are blissfully unaware of anything I do. I asked my four-year-old, Harrison, what I did, and he said, 'You're an electrician.' He must have seen me changing a lightbulb.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know to eat green vegetables and oily fish, but who does that? I'll have a cake, thanks.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the basic comedy of growing a moustache.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think poshness is very funny! But I think it's also delightful. There's something wonderful and very innocent about it, particularly with the Edwardians.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great to do stuff that 'gets you out of the house' in a way - that gets you to meet other people!
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to take a little break sometimes. Then, hopefully, you get some more lead in your pencil, and you're raring to go again!
- Empty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own 'inventions.'
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to go badger-watching as a boy, and it's brilliant fun - they're incredibly active animals, and the cubs are very funny to watch.
- First Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our annual school physics trip was always to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, as it's such a good example of Newtonian physics. You can learn about centrifugal force and Newton's first law from the roller coasters, and the Viking long boat is a giant pendulum. It's good for children to understand that science underpins all these brilliant things.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once played a character called Mr. Jonathan in something called 'Razzle Dazzle.' I was a choreographer of children's pageants. That was something I never imagined doing. It did great in Australia.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a have-a-go dad. I like babies.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you get a lot of comedians who are homeopaths. Comedy is essentially about not being hoodwinked.
- Once
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did play a romantic part once - Orsino in 'Twelfth Night.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a committed Whovian, I cannot believe my luck in joining the Twelfth Doctor for one of his inaugural adventures. My only worry is that they'll make me leave the set when I'm not filming.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not afraid to say it - I'm proud to be from a nation that wears its heart on its sleeve and isn't scared to show its feelings.
- Assure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
Galactic plankton is undoubtedly out there, but it's statistically highly likely there's also another intelligent civilisation out there somewhere. Unfortunately, the distances and time differences are so great, communication might remain impossible.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club at university, where a lot of those people got their start. I had a go and loved it immediately. After that, I just couldn't stop writing sketches, and it all took off from there.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that makes me laugh about the phrase 'the worst week of my life' is that nobody actually uses that phrase when something really bad happens.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think I'm Rob Brydon a lot.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each character has to be ruthlessly, faultlessly played. But live, you can hint at what's going on behind. You can let the audience in a bit and go off the script.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm prepared to try to talk to a very beautiful girl. I learned a fantastic secret, which is that the most beautiful woman in the room is not being spoken to because she's too intimidating. They're not looking for somebody beautiful; they're looking for somebody to amuse them.
- Classic
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the classic thing - children's TV gets watched by everybody, not just children. 'Horrible Histories' is the sort of thing everyone watches.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ricky Gervais has jokes about people with disabilities, but do I think that's a healthy thing? Yes, I really do, because he's chosen his targets very carefully, and he's thought about what he's doing.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Death In Paradise' is my dream job - a fascinating character, great scripts, superb cast, and shooting in the Caribbean with French catering.
- Moralistic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny Cash thing that trying to live a good life and be a good person are not necessarily the same thing!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my first Mac in 1984. I've got an Airbook, iPad, iPhone, the lot. I love that blend of technology, creativity, and design.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Death In Paradise,' I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an early adopter of everything from Myspace to Twitter, and I think they're just fads, like CB radio.
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very lucky, I had a very amicable separation and very amicable divorce, but it was still horrendous.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to get across that science is something that we all have ownership of and we can all take an interest in. We don't all have to understand complex theories, but we should have a working knowledge, like knowing your way round the engine of your car.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is a hobby, and I'm really into it, but it's not my job. My job is to learn about comedy and to make people laugh. Science, for me, is probably a bit like Danny Baker's love of football or Rod Stewart's obsession with train sets.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first-ever job I had was in a play, 'Trench Kiss,' with Caroline Quentin and Arthur Smith.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody wants to get divorced.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I slept on a friend's kitchen floor for a year and a half.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.
- French
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.
- Checking
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was on holiday in Ibiza, having a lovely time, writing a book and looking at the stars every night and generally not having a care in the world. Then I got sent the script for 'Death in Paradise.' I couldn't get back to England in time for the auditions, so my girlfriend filmed me on her camera, and I sent it off via email.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things like 'The Office,' and arguably shows like 'The Only Way Is Essex,' are comedies, just using real people in real situations.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get dissatisfied really easily, and I have to constantly keep moving; I have to constantly keep doing things. I find it very hard to switch off.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020