I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

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.

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

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.

As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles.

Death brings out the beauty in life.

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing.

Forewarn'd, forearm'd.

I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

Manga just needs to be interesting. If it is than it will get serialized.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.