I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.

I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.

I tend to want to go quite big in my acting, which you just cannot do in front of a camera. It's taken me a while to learn how to pull it back.

As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby.

When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.

Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

We need to reexamine and reassess the purpose of the corporation, and go back to the idea that senior leadership has responsibilities not just to shareholders but also to customers and employees.

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

I don't think there can be anyone on earth more happy than I am right now. Inside, I feel fulfilled.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

He is the greatest influence in the world today. There is... a fifth Gospel being written - the work of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of men and nations.