“I'm very good at having time off. I tend to take whole years off - I had 1994 an…” — Rowan Atkinson

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.