When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
I think sometimes people become quite emotional about the characters as well, and that's pretty cool that you can get that emotion out of people. And I think that's more my motivation than like, "Hey I want to be the funny guy, I want to be that famous funny guy. " That doesn't sit as well with me as the idea of taking people on this ride and taking them into the illusion of the characters. That's much more exciting for me.
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.
They were all wonderful [on Andy Griffith Show], but I enjoyed Andy and Don and Ron the most. Ron played little Opie so well. He really took acting seriously and worked hard to deliver his lines well. Andy was always fun and liked to tease. Don was nothing like Barney. Don was very quiet, which shows what a good actor he was.
I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.