As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive.

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another

We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

The behavior of the minority ... warranted the sergeant at arms being called.

Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable in the hot seat.

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

I used to be a regular college student and now I go all over the country and stay at really nice hotels.