“We need a corrective on who is a genuine artist. I'm an opportunist. I have no talent. That's true of 99 per cent of people in the British media. Ricky Gervais or Graham and Arthur who wrote Father Ted or Armando Iannucci are God-like as they have talent. Everyone else is a drone.”

—  Griff Rhys Jones

Michael Odell, "This much I know: Griff Rhys Jones", The Guardian, November 5 2006.
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