Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted.