About David Walliams: David Edward Williams is an English comedian, actor, author, television personality and activist, best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the BBC One sketch shows Little Britain, Rock Profile and Come Fly with Me.
We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.
Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat... I just feel really happy in the water.
All human life can be found in an airport.
I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.
I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Mak...
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.
I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.
Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.
I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.
I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roal...
I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.
I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.
I am a huge fan of 'Doctor Who.'
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
Social satire has been around since people have been around.
There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.
