39 Quotes by Rik Mayall

You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

I am a global light entertainment phenomena, so how can I remember everything?

We'll wait until the next thing comes along and we shall do another thing - probably about being old.

With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.

Bigger Than Hitler is because I made so many more sitcoms than Hitler ever made. It's just vast. Videos of me have been watched in countries that weren't invented when he was around. It's just a fact of who I am.

I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!

I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.

On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You have to use the conventions, that's why Kevin (Turvey) works so well.