I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.

I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

Stresses in a marriage and in family life, sometimes they're prompted by whatever is going on in the wider world as well as what's going on behind your door.

I didn't know that love is not about what we do, but who we are, convincing others of our love for them...and about who loves us.

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.

In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.