David Jason

David: I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how well you're looked after, how nice the hotel is, if you're away from home constantly, the bloody dog savages you, thinks you're a stranger, the kid cries and the wife's stuck to your face!

David: Perhaps being a character actor on radio was, in retrospect, the best training I could get.

David: It was a long time before TV wanted me - I would have had to commit murder to get a part on the box at one time.

David: I've done my fair share of waiting on tables in restaurants, cleaning cars, whatever. I was even an electrician at one time, and I've done my fair bit of decorating, too. But slowly my fortunes changed.

David: I've never ever 'felt my age', whatever that means. I think that there are a lot of people who feel 22 when in fact they're 62, and there are a lot of youngsters out there who behave as if they were four times their age. It's an attitude of mind, isn't it?

David: Marriage is like throwing yourself into a river when you only wanted a drink of water.

David: I've been fascinated by deep sea diving since watching Jacques Cousteau's TV programmes as a lad.