Quotes from Harry Enfield

Men seem to relate to boys better, sharing their interests in whizzing about and football and car-cars and other moronic activities.

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.

Sometimes I have really good ideas, but it is always Paul's language that makes them work. Without him I'd be more clinical, more mundane. What I achieve with him is different to any thing I could ever hope to achieve with any one else.

God knows what the Yanks will make of 'Kevin and Perry.' It's totally gross to them because we don't look like we're off 'Dawson's Creek' or whatever. They'll think we're really weird.

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

In private companies that are successful, the management have learnt to put their staff first, customers second, shareholders last.

If you were going to compare me to a car, I'd be very flattered to be compared to a Vauxhall Astra. Rowan Atkinson would be a Ferrari, I suppose. Or maybe that's Steve Coogan. And Rowan would be an Aston Martin. He's a bit classier than a Ferrari. Or Hugh Grant would be a Ferrari. And I'd be a Vauxhall Astra. That suits me down to the ground.

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

About once a month, our local church would have an evening Folk Mass, and my mother would drag us along because she saw that the ghastly creatures who sung on these occasions strummed guitars, and she associated all guitar strumming with pop music.

I'd like to play a larger-than-life character done straight, like Clouseau. To move away from Dick Emery and towards Peter Sellers.

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'm good at caricature.

People were always saying, 'are you going to do a film of any of the characters in the TV show.' The only ones that were appropriate were Kevin and Perry. There's a precedent with 'Wayne's World' and the 'Bill And Ted' films.

I don't play golf. I don't know anything about golf.

Computers are dangerous.

America exports its culture world-wide but with us they don't have to surmount a language barrier, and therefore they swamp us. While other European cultures are protected from erosion by their languages, ours is not.

It's good fun making commercials because you are picked up in a posh car and pampered all day by your personal pamperer, or 'runner' as they are known in the business.

Every day I get something in the post telling me to worry about something else. Worry mail is big business.

The older generation may see us as plucky little Britain, on the Edge of Europe. But more and more of the post-war generation see Britain as a less beautiful, more cramped, more snobbish, less glamorous version of America.

The history of post-war Britain shows us that we are lousy at running our economy. We need someone to do it for us.

Boys are strange creatures.

All children try to manipulate their parents, but their tactics are different, and women seem better able to cope with the tactics of girls than of boys.

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

If religion bends to society's whims, like Peter Tatchell himself, it ceases to be religious, so what's the point?