Jason Segel

"I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me."  Jason Segel

Christopher Guest

"I love airport lounges. Los Angeles is a bad place for me, because there's so little street life or public space. The good places are New York, London and Paris, where behaviour is out in the open. Basically, my whole job is to look at people in public and watch the way they behave and listen to them talk." Christopher Guest.

Johnny Knoxville

"Some of the guys say I don’t know the difference between real life and cartoons." Johnny Knoxville 

Coen Brothers

 

"Sometimes we do gang up on people." Joel Coen. "There's two of us and only one of you." Ethan Coen.

Dick Van Dyke

“We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” Dick Van Dyke

Robert Smith

"I'm wearing black now, I always have. I don't do it because I'm making a statement; I do it because it's... I don't know, slimming?" Robert Smith

Oscar Kightley

"I got work in comedy because that was the work I was offered, but I'm quite a serious person generally. I'm not one of those guys who walks into a room and starts cracking a gag. I find that exhausting." Oscar Kightley

Bill Nighy

"I'm a fetishist about what they used to call 'a decent lounge suit'. I sort of want to wear the same dark blue suit every day, maybe with a different shirt." Bill Nighy

David Saunders

"We always set out to write pop songs but they had to be damaged in some way. Maybe even deliberately wrong in some cases; wrong but catchy." David Saunders

Wendell Pierce

"I know that ‘Wendell Pierce, best known as Detective Bunk Moreland from The Wire’ will be the first line of my obituary, but I love it – I’m happy that I’ll forever be Bunk. I can go on a night out without paying for a drink. People will ask, ‘Can I call you Bunk?’ and I’ll go, ‘You know something, you want me to be Bunk? Line them up, let’s drink.’" Wendell Pierce

Rob Brydon

Stephen Fry: How does the love bomb work?

Rob Bryden: I turn up and get on with it.

John Campbell

"I have probably suffered all my life with an enormous desire to please people and to do the right thing and to be the right person, but the problem is also that I have always been attracted to rogues and rascals." John Campbell

James Spader

"I’m most drawn to characters who are compelling and repellant at the same time, very often right at the same moment, and who are frightening and funny all at once." James Spader

Martin Starr

"There’s still part of me that wants to be like, a pizza-delivery guy. Just to meet people." Martin Starr

Neil Young

"I try not to look back. I’m looking forward. I’m worried more about what I’m going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else." Neil Young

Michael Winterbottom

"If I had to put together a Michael Winterbottom retrospective, I'd call it 'Struggle, Actually'." Michael Winterbottom

Art Garfunkel

"Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut." Art Garfunkel

Nick Cave

"When I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say. I don't look back to 'What a miserable fucking time.' In general I'm a pretty up, buoyant, optimistic kind of person." Nick Cave

Justin Townes Earle

“You can’t get in trouble when you’re reading a book.” Justin Townes Earle

John Cassavetes

“I have a need for the characters to really analyse love; discuss it, kill it, destroy it, hurt each other... And all the rest of the stuff doesn’t interest me. It may interest other people. But I – y’know, one track mind. That’s all that interests me. Is love." John Cassavetes

Christopher Eccleston

"I was a real mix as a school-kid, I was obsessed with playing football, but I also spent a great deal of time on my own being Sean Connery’s James Bond. And I used to be a character called Old Man in the Rain. When it rained, I’d sit on this old fishing basket, and pretend I was this old fellow looking out over his life." Christopher Eccleston

Christopher Walken

"Golf. My God, that's a mysterious occupation. I can understand some sort of sport where your body got a benefit, like marathon running or bicycle racing. That's not golf. And not only that, but the whole business of standing in the sun — my God. That's like torture." Christopher Walken

David Sedaris

"I’d like to think some of my nervous habits faded during high school – but my class pictures tell a different story.” David Sedaris 

Shayne Carter



"You don't want to be the dude sitting outside the cafe saying "Remember me? I wrote that song 'She Speeds'." Shayne Carter



Bobby Gillespie




"I just think people are fucking idiots sometimes, you know?" Bobby Gillespie

 



Beck Hansen



"I don't think I was teased just because I was the only white kid in a predominantly Latino neighbourhood. I don't even think it was the fact that I looked like a girl. I was an odd little white boy. I would've been an odd little Salvadorean boy." Beck Hansen



Harry Dean Stanton

"I only eat so I can smoke and stay alive." Harry Dean Stanton

Tom Waits

"I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary." Tom Waits

Jeffrey Eugenides

"I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have. ...I think about the reader. I care about the reader. That one person, alone in a room, whose time I'm asking for." Jeffrey Eugenides

Ray LaMontagne

“There's this thing that I'm antisocial. But I love people. I love humanity. I'm being serious... I just don't like assholes." Ray LaMontagne

Chris Lilley

"I broke into a school playground and my mate shot me walking around in character, wearing one of my mum’s tracksuits. It was really low budget. But the network loved it and offered to pay me to do a series." Chris Lilley