I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.

You darling is my semicolon.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

I hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play songs off their new album!

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold.

I miss live audiences, because it's like no other form of entertainment, where the audience is a major part of the production every night.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.