I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't, he said: Do you mind if I mug you here?

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.

I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.

If you stay in a house and you go to the bathroom and there is no toilet paper, you can always slide down the banisters. Don't tell me you haven't done it.

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

the oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to com

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

I love Mayberry! The people here are wonderful! When I'm at the grocery store people come up and hug me. Friends pick me up and take me for rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway and I always love that.

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

It takes few words to tell the truth.

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally.

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.

Gardens are our link with the divine.