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People don't expect me to be as funny as I am.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time.

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

I don't like speaking publicly when I don't have to be funny.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

If people want to see me in comedies, that's fine with me.

It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder.

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.