I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

I would have to say my earthy sensuality - although I should point out that the backs of my calves are exemplary and my upper inner thigh is a delight.

I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days.

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

We are citizens of heaven. We must conduct ourselves, worthy of our calling, faith in Christ.

Existence of mankind, the glory of God.

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.