"The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty."
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"I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?"
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"I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom."
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"I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated."
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"Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20."
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"You exaggerate your own reactions."
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"You look like a horse in a man costume"
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"Because their bones are growing, they can only sleep in certain positions, obviously. The crucifix and the swastika tend to be the most popular. Sometimes a combination of the two."
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"It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator."
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"Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing."
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"I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure."
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"I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity."
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"You see the button with the guy with the tray, and you push it, and he arrives with a sandwich! And you think: "Yes! Yes! I control sandwich monkey! I live in magic land, magic land, magic land""
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"Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off"
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"Wow this place is really big isn't it? They must do proper stuff here, like opera and all that...shite."
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"I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself."
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"I just wish I had longer. It's very frustrating. As you know, to people over here, cities like [Washington] D.C. are iconic. We know them so well. It's very frustrating to be in one of them for 36 hours and have a show to do because you can't really do anything."
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"I have used that song ["50ft Queenie"] and I'm a big PJ Harvey fan. I think she's fantastic."
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"I'll have to look into [Washington] D.C. a bit more. I know it's given over to the administration and the bureaucracy connected to it. It's a super-organism of the American state. But there's also a parallel city in there where normal people live."
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"I always try to address where I am. I'll talk to the people and try to find out what it is about that particular place that makes it distinct from everywhere else."
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