Good-humoured unaffected girls will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers off-the-wall sense of humour like me.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that it's very sad.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting and especially humour was my way of dealing with all that.

My father and I had a good relationship it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

Well he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning and that's a load of mince as well.

The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

At home I've got a very puerile juvenile sense of humour.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

My humour has always come from anger but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.