I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"

People can hate you or curse you, but if you love, then nothing can touch you.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse.

That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

Freedom is not free, and we all have a lot of work ahead of us. And I perform the ultimate soundtrack to get the job done every day. We're not having any fun at all.