Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

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.

After a lifetime of wanting to be loved, she didn't think she could bear it if it finally happened just before she was about to die.

Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.

Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.

C-3PO is flappable [in Star Wars]. [Kaytoo is] very unflappable compared to C-3PO, who is just flapping all over the place.

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.

There's no way to get around it; online dating is work. And some people are more skilled at this kind of communication than others.

Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow?

The best research you can do is to talk to people.

There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.