I am lucky to be in a profession that is not age dependent.

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.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts--such is the duty of the artist.

Extend your loving and kind hands towards others. In return you will find that the whole universe will be kind to you.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library... alone." He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa.

Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

The public are always right... but I think they've got it wrong tonight

Be the best at what you're good at

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?