I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.

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.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

I love you till kingdom come, evergreen.

Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.

Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

Lead worshipers: Our primary task is simply to help others worship.

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.