If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

You owe it to yourself, to refuse to surrender to obstacles that are meant to stop you from reaching far in your endeavours. Be determined that you will never be a captive of your environment.

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

Hey Shelly, you’re looking at me like I’m from another planet. What’s wrong?”“Nothing’s wrong. Bubbles sold me alien abduction insurance. I haven’t got a care in the world.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Maybe you're not doing it right""I wasn't aware there was a technique to tree hugging.

I believe God did create the world. And I think we're finding out more and more and more as to how it actually happened.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

I love cooking and baking.

The more you can distract yourself, the better.