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.

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.

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.

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.

No body told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

I don't believe everything "is meant to be." I believe God wants to direct our steps, but our free will makes for a lot of detours.

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.