As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

Change is such hard work.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

Womanhood is a flourishing flower.

Contrary to popular belief, there are peaks higher than Mount Everest. These are the hurdles that lie within each of us. Thank you Stephen Hawking for showing us that they are not insurmountable

But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls, ' he wrote back, 'This is my home.

A book if like a life journey. You find good moments and bad moments but the thing that is the most important is that there is always an happy ending

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

My only fear is the unknown.

One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

Honestly, I feel really grateful for everything.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

We all have firm favourites we bring out at a dinner parties, but it's nice to try something a bit more edgy, or more time-consuming.