I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.

It's so infectious to watch people having fun.

When you're surrounded by brilliant people it really is just easy to do your job.

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

There's a reason people love watching blooper reels of actors falling about laughing.

When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments when you can see someone is trying not to laugh.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind.

How many losses does it take to stop a heart, to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?

Bend over backward, do a favor, and give and build confidence in people. It's a time to compliment, support and acknowledge the good things people do.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

If the Christians continue to desert Jesus Christ in His temple, will not the Heavenly Father take away from them His well-beloved Son Whom they neglect?

The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.

Whenever I do something I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.