I would have to say my earthy sensuality - although I should point out that the backs of my calves are exemplary and my upper inner thigh is a delight.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.

I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days.

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.

If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

Meditation is wondering. It is both wondering and wonder.

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

Don't put a ceiling on yourself.

He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open.