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.

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.

I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape against the jagged pieces. I would not be cut today.

Love tickles parts of you that, prior to its influence, you didn't even know could feel.

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war.

My parents were big supporters of me going to college. It was the right thing for me to do. But it was the toughest decision I had to make.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do.