I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

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.

If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed

A bird does not achieve its highest potential inside its shell.

If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan called for two 7,500 word stories, and I turned in two 10,000 word stories.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.