If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.

There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

I'm taking time to figure out where I want to go and what I want to do next. In this line of work, you become so defined by your job.

I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.