Paul Whitehouse

In comedy, if you're going to commission something commission two series, don't commission one because so many comedies are finding their feet…

— Paul Whitehouse

I am not a heavy drinker, but I like a drop of white burgundy.

— Paul Whitehouse

If you look back at 'The Fast Show,' we always shot it nicely and tried to make it look good as well…

— Paul Whitehouse

Bob and I got into comedy in a similar way. On the coat-tails of our mates.

— Paul Whitehouse

Making it big in pop would have suited me fine, although comedy is a far better world for an older person.

— Paul Whitehouse

There's nothing better than going down the lawn to the river for a few hours in the evening and catching your own…

— Paul Whitehouse

My dad was a very calm figure in my life and I have only good memories of him. We had a very…

— Paul Whitehouse

Women would never be abusive about physical appearance. It's a no-go area, but it's an icebreaker for men.

— Paul Whitehouse

There's more to fishing than catching fish. It's being lost in a timeless world, away from all the chaos outside, doing something…

— Paul Whitehouse

Stealth is important when you're fishing.

— Paul Whitehouse

As more and more new houses get built, they just suck the water out of rivers.

— Paul Whitehouse

I never write alone.

— Paul Whitehouse

If you did something in 'The Fast Show' that didn't work, you could always deliberately undermine it, or chop it into three…

— Paul Whitehouse

When we started out, there weren't that many women in team sketch shows.

— Paul Whitehouse

In many ways I was lucky: my dad had a quadruple bypass in his fifties. When I had the heart stents, the…

— Paul Whitehouse

Harry - how can I put it? - doesn't suffer fools gladly. But he's always very indulgent with me. If I come…

— Paul Whitehouse

We are all prisoners of our past to some extent.

— Paul Whitehouse

If I stand correctly in the mirror I can frame it so that I still have hair. But the camera doesn't lie.

— Paul Whitehouse

If someone says 'Oh, that's a really good film,' before I go and see it, I'll probably think it is, but then…

— Paul Whitehouse

I started fishing with my dad on the River Lea in London.

— Paul Whitehouse

I met Harry through a mutual friend in the early Eighties, when Harry used to do a passable Prince Charles impersonation over…

— Paul Whitehouse

My mum and dad were full-on proles, from the Rhondda Valley, who love opera. I've got quite a bit of opera, and…

— Paul Whitehouse

I don't find a lot of situations daunting - social situations, that is - I never have. Women, on the other hand,…

— Paul Whitehouse

I think I can sing, and if you ask Bob Mortimer he will tell you, 'Will you shut up,' and my children…

— Paul Whitehouse

Obviously, you lose sight of certain things as you get older. In some cases; for example, youth culture.

— Paul Whitehouse