I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

The more you understand your true spiritual identity, and your connection with the Supreme, the easier it will be to love your Self.

Happiness is the moment when one doesn't feel pain.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council. But if that were to happen Iran is not afraid.

I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.