We sold ‚Seinfeld‘ all over the world but it was a very specific kind of show. In some countries it went down really well, in others they hated it.

Comedy Central was a great network, but ‚Chappelle’s Show‘ took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so many viewers were watching the ‚Chappelle‘ reruns. For BET, the ‚Real Husbands of Hollywood‘ has that same potential.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It’s either ‚rawk‘ or it’s not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

I know about two things: ‚Rocky III‘ and Clubber Lang, and ‚A-Team‘ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

It’s very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don’t say ‚Hi‘ to everyone you meet, and you don’t smile to everyone you meet, because there’s just so many. Which is also very strange.

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

I do watch some TV. I like the History Channel and National Geographic, and old shows on TV Land like ‚Sanford and Son,‘ ‚The Jeffersons,‘ and ‚Benson.‘

I often look ridiculous in Japan. There’s really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

I like a drama.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

I don’t know why they gave me a knighthood – though it’s very nice of them – but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don’t.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.