I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art.

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.

Our audacity must be rooted in our humility.

Home isn't a place, its a feeling

I often feel like the director of a cemetery. I have a lot of people under me but nobody listens!

In love swallow your pride but never your dignity.

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays.

The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

My main focus is on becoming a new mom and giving the best of myself to my husband and growing baby.

The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.

Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.