Quotes from Harry Enfield

I don't believe in Tony Blair.

I played Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, David Cameron - four Prime Ministers. If Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister I would find it difficult that I would not be allowed to play him because of the colour of his skin.

Writing scripts is fine because you get through a page quickly. But writing words just reminds me of school. To me a novel would be like writing a 300-page essay.

The Slobs were written in a very 2D way, but Kathy Burke brought a touching quality to all her characters.

Most of my characters are silly little boys. It's human. Everyone is badly behaved.

What Paul and I do is not fashionable - it's a load of silly characters mucking about.

It's about time we stopped being so insecure and defensive and admitted that the Germans are better at economics than us. We like laughing and they like maths.

I can't write a sitcom.

I don't know what a good sketch show is.

When you join the wonderful world of showbiz, you quickly find yourself meeting all sorts of famous people.

Little boys are different from little girls, tend to develop more slowly, and are generally more stupid than their sisters.

Everyone's come up against a snob or a know-all.

I have a dear friend called Kate St John who is a musical genius.

At the end of every series, I think I won't do any more. But as long as I can think of fresh stuff, I can keep going.

I have dealings with a pension firm, an insurance company and a bank, and every day one of these institutions tries to worry me into buying something else. The bank wants to sell me a pension, the pension company wants to sell me insurance for my pension and the insurance company wants to insure my bank account.

I don't understand why the Euro-sceptics think monetary union will lead to a federal Europe. It seems to me that the opposite is the case.

My own schooldays convince me that I would not send a child of mine to be educated by a grinning monk any more than I would send him to a mullah in Iran.

I've had a huge career of killing off characters. Low attention span. Done that, that works, done. I can't get out of bed if I've got to do the same thing over and over again.

You're cutting off your nose to spite your face if you try to be self-consciously cutting-edge.

My friend Kate St John is not only a brilliant musician and beautiful person, but also an excellent White Goods Adviser.

When I was 15 my great Aunt Nancy gave me a book of Alan Bennett plays, and I thought he was the bees knees.

Like all extremely nice people, I tend to be on the side of the underdog, or at least feel sorry for him.

I can understand why people don't like fox hunting, but I really can't see why anyone other than vegans can object to game shooting.

Ricky Gervais captured the staggering laziness that comes with a boring job.