I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Two footsteps do not make a path.

Will you not see?” she cried. “You are not as other men are. Why need you bow to a Fate? Can you not change it?

Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

Skype seems the best maybe, as international phone rates are silly. And service is service, that's definitely true. Any time there are two people involved, one of them becomes a server.

In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic. There's a retro feel to the [Donald] Trump program.

We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities.

Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in.