Quotes from Simon Pegg

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script.

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head?

In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.

I don't know about doing a sequel. I think you can retroactively damage a product by adding to it.

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home.

I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.

We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.

The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck.

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

I just love listening to the laughter.