Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It’s about character first. It’s about story. And for me, it’s about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them.

A Christian telling an atheist they’re going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they’re not getting any presents from Santa.

A joke isn’t yours. It’s used and you don’t know where it’s been.

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it’s artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he’s not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won’t happen to you.

Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.

Avoid employing unlucky people – throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they’re doing things because they’re right, because they live by a moral code.

Being on the edge isn’t as safe, but the view is better

Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

Body language is more powerful than words.

Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer.

Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.

Comedy is a medicine – a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better

Do this or you’ll burn in hell.

Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It’s all we’ve got.

Even if it’s such a lowly art as TV, you’ve got to get stuff off your chest, because that’s what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.

Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it’s all my memories of growing up.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you believe in god, you’re wrong.