I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

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 finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

I write what I love.I will not stop – even when my hand hurts….…. because I cannot stop – even though my heart hurts….

You may start small but don't stay small

Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood.

What's it like going back? Fun and sexy. That's the point. It's - the only reason to go back to an old boyfriend is because you think hmm, maybe.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.