Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

I'm a one-man idiot.

I remember when I was being told about Watergate, and I thought, “Oh, America is not what I think America is.” But America is what I think it is. It’s just that it’s two bits of it, and I don’t go with the Republican bit of it. I go more with the Democratic bit.

But stinging nettles: They just love existing, don’t they? They’re bastards. Stinging nettles are the Nazis of the weed world.

Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It’s a slow burn thing. It’s got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.

I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I’m out the door. But that’s the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there’s a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the world than despair. Hatred and separation and building walls is not the way to progress. Going backward is not the way to go forward.

When I was seven, I said, “I want to act.” When I was 10, I realized that films exist, and I wanted to be in them. Not a comedian, I wanted to be a dramatic actor. Films just seemed such fun, and like such a great thing to do.

Fox hunting, there’s big fox hunting thing, there’s arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.