I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.