I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.

I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.

You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

I keep people alive every day, and right now, the person I’m trying to keep alive is you. Will you let me?

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be!

Invented the #hashtag.

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.

I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

There is no almost in giving your all.