My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, marketing your uniqueness, marketing what you stand for.

The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

'The Goonies' is the one that everyone either remembers themselves or their children are seeing now.

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

If you're lucky enough to have something that makes you different, don't ever change.