I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

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.

In suffering, we resurrect our souls.

If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then I feel like that's a great song.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

I think Michael Moore is a hero. I love him.

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?

We have to understand that people are different. I don't know, if we really understand who we're dealing with over there.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.