Harry Enfield

“Computers are dangerous.”

“I can't write a sitcom.”

“I was brought up a Roman Catholic, so when I was a child I was frogmarched to church every Sunday.”

“One aspect of the male that women find hard to understand is his obsession with electronic gadgets such as mobile phones, tiddly televisions, computers and combined answerphone-fax machines.”

“I don't know what a good sketch show is.”

“If I go to Liverpool, everyone's really nice to me. But when we do 'Scousers' I portray Liverpudlians as a bunch of thieving, unemployed, violent wastrels, which is a really terrible thing to do.”

“I'm trying to stop reading the Daily Telegraph. I've read it for several years because I prefer to read a pro-Government newspaper that slags the Government off, which the Telegraph frequently does, than an anti-government one or a trying-oh-so-hard-to-be-neutral one.”

“I played Nelson Mandela in one thing for laughs - and I did it because this thing had come round from the BBC that we couldn't do it any more.”

“Most of my characters are silly little boys. It's human. Everyone is badly behaved.”

“I have dealings with a pension firm, an insurance company and a bank, and every day one of these institutions tries to worry me into buying something else. The bank wants to sell me a pension, the pension company wants to sell me insurance for my pension and the insurance company wants to insure my bank account.”

“Why would you be a sell-out for making money out of what you can do?”

“The Slobs were written in a very 2D way, but Kathy Burke brought a touching quality to all her characters.”

“I don't believe in Tony Blair.”

“The danger of being in fashion is that one day you'll be out of fashion.”

“In the early '80s when I came to London, I didn't like opera. I didn't know anything about it.”

“All my big success has happened since I worked with Paul. I've worked with other people and alone, but I've enjoyed myself more and worked best with him. If he became big-headed that would be fatal, because I'm the bighead in our relationship, and I bully him over work.”

“When I come up with a character, I know how he lives and breathes.”

“I used to watch a lot of afternoon TV. I started imitating the movies then.”

“I like Hugh Grant.”

“As a teenager I was pretty horrible.”