I want my work to be judged, not me.

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.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender give you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine.

Right.” Sadie looked dazed. “You’ve got a monkey butler. Why not?

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.