It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

I might do a fitness video. Actually, more of a fatness video.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.

I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

The Kumars... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

The heart that bleeds, knows true heartache.-Nina Jean Slack

I don’t think I’d feel any more violated if he’d stripped me bare. I might as well have lain down before him openly exposing all my flaws and my fears, inviting him to psychoanalyze me.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

Only the paranoid survive.

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

Perception is made up of bands.

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

A nuclear armed Iran makes the world less safe, less stable, less secure.

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.