What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

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.

There is a price to be paid for any accomplishment.

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

Pakistan is the most dangerous country on Earth.

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

Dress how you feel and love what you wear because at the end of the day you have got to wear and feel great in it.

Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.

Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.