It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

Never expect to be accepted without criticism. Never forget to appreciate.

Every page turnedshould be the page read

To have this opportunity, in light of my familys struggles, made me want to create something lasting and relevant.

The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.

A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.