The biggest difference between British TV and American TV is money. But what money doesn't do on American TV, which I thought it would, is buy you time. You don't get more time. You get more toys.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much.

Most of the television I've done over the years has been aimed at British and American audiences. This time, while the target is still Britain and America, the excitement is that there are also six billion inhabitants of the globe.

with her factories equipped to the very latest point of science by British and American money.

War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.