What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight man, and then there's the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they're both the funny guy.

You can't really dust for vomit.

You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

I'm married to the person I fell in love with.

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

...notice all the many beautiful things, nature, your own soul, stuff other people do.... like help out, smile, create, dance...

Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night

The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.

Christians need to have a mindset of victory, because God has destined us for victory

The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

We have to know before we can act.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

In the end, the Tribune lost touch with the world it was supposed to reach; it mattered passionately, but almost exclusively, to those who worked for it.

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.