Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.

So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

Follow your bliss on the way to success

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.

I think every [fighting] style has the same core. It's all about changing and positioning, transitions.

Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it.

Why do the good die? That only happened once.

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.

Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.