I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life. – Rik Mayall
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! – Rik Mayall
Other people get moody in their forties and fifties – men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy. – Rik Mayall
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. – Rik Mayall
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. – Rik Mayall
It’s difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say. – Rik Mayall
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. – Rik Mayall
With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in. – Rik Mayall
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! – Rik Mayall
