I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.

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 life, when you have a partner–someone you can rely on and trust with everything that you are–there isn’t anything you can’t accomplish. I will always be there for you, if you let me.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

In god we trust.. everyone else will and shall be judged.. make peace with it

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.

Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

I'm not running like Colonel [Bernie] Sanders. All reputations matter.

She glared at him. "I'm not asking you to apologize." "Well, that's a relief.I doubt I could find the words.

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.