For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.

I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

Children, pray for the salvation of your parents.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

But I'm concerned about security.” My response to that is simple: “Security is for cadavers.

Run. Yoga. Hike. Generally try to outpace the nerves. If that doesn't work, one Jack on the rocks.

Believe in the power of songs.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.