The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

This club is for members only. But once you join, membership lasts for an eternity.

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

Most of the things that I learn are from the women in my life.

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.