Quotes

I just like doing different things. I get very impatient and very bored easily and I'm always curious to try other things. If I had an ambition in life it would be to know everything, but I guess that's a bit unrealistic. But as long as I can breathe, I hope I will continue to try and do different things. It's about not being afraid to fail. Of course I care about that but you've still got to try things and that's what I want to continue to do.

I was never really into superheroes as a child. We weren't allowed to watch much television in our house so I wasn't a television or a movie buff nor were we encouraged to read comic books. My mother fed us books but it was mainly proper classic children's literature like the CS Lewis books. Much later, as a teenager, I saw some of the sixties Batman series, but wasn't particularly enthralled by it. My heroes tended to be footballers, the Pope and JFK.

I don't think anyone's "happy".

Ireland is a land of Poets and Writers. Or "Drunks", as you call them...

That was the show, more than any other show, that inspired me to get into comedy. As a teenager I was glued to The Young Ones (1982).

[on Nigel Planer] To just meet him was great, and then to work with him is doubly brilliant.