Rik Mayall Quotations

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.

With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.

When you're an experienced celeb - which I am - you sometimes just need a bit of space, when you're not 'on'. I'm always on!

I don't want people to know who I am.

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.

I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that... but I've never been very good at... I don't want to have to answer questions I don't know the answer to properly. I have an opinion.

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.

I am a global light entertainment phenomena, so how can I remember everything?

We'll wait until the next thing comes along and we shall do another thing - probably about being old.