When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.

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.

Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt.

You don't drown by falling in the water

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.

I do jump behind the bar when we're really busy, but by that point I've usually drunk too much to work.

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror.