I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

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 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.

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.

Love is a prison of life where we always like to get in and never want to get out.

Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

Do you know what happens after you lose the Super Bowl? The world ends. It just stops.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

The face that cannot smile is never fair.

Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.