What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.

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.

God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.

No headboards were broken.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion. Whose intelligence? Whose design?

The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!