I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

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.

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.

Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.

You ought to welcome troubled-souls with your peaceful-spirits.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.

As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want them to be the hero, you want them to always be right.

Insecurity is love dressed in a child's clothing.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone.

A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.