I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.

I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You have to use the conventions, that's why Kevin (Turvey) works so well.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

I wish to emphasize that there are no secrets to golf.

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find. I rode when no one else would ride.

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.

It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.

Crime generally punishes itself.