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I'm obsessed with coffee.
Nobody wants to get divorced.
People think I'm Rob Brydon a lot.
I'm a have-a-go dad. I like babies.
I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.
I love the basic comedy of growing a moustache.
I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
More than anything, I enjoy making people laugh.
Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.
Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.
As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.
I slept on a friend's kitchen floor for a year and a half.
Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.
I did play a romantic part once - Orsino in 'Twelfth Night.'
I have always played a slightly ineffectual, bumbly, nice guy.
It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
Definitely the most important thing in my life is being a father.
I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.
I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.
I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.
The first-ever job I had was in a play, 'Trench Kiss,' with Caroline Quentin and Arthur Smith.
I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.
We all know to eat green vegetables and oily fish, but who does that? I'll have a cake, thanks.
I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.
I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.
I'm very lucky, I had a very amicable separation and very amicable divorce, but it was still horrendous.
All men in their 40s want to be in rock bands, and I reserve the right to be in a pub band at some point.
Initially, the best thing about being in L.A. was the girls - they loved me. It was like being a pop star.
I was an early adopter of everything from Myspace to Twitter, and I think they're just fads, like CB radio.
Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.
On 'Death In Paradise,' I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.
I don't think you get a lot of comedians who are homeopaths. Comedy is essentially about not being hoodwinked.
I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?
I adored 'Drop the Dead Donkey.' That show defined Channel 4 at the time; it was so inventive and off the leash.
Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
L.A.'s hippies are actually quite scary - more like Hell's Angels than the Haight-Ashbury hippies of San Francisco.
My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.
I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I'm there on business, I always add on a few extra days for pleasure.
Actually I don't mind the gym when I get there, but I hate the psychological battle I have to go through to get there.
I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.
I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.
For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.
I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?
I got my first Mac in 1984. I've got an Airbook, iPad, iPhone, the lot. I love that blend of technology, creativity, and design.
Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
You need to take a little break sometimes. Then, hopefully, you get some more lead in your pencil, and you're raring to go again!
I'm not afraid to say it - I'm proud to be from a nation that wears its heart on its sleeve and isn't scared to show its feelings.