When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.

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.

…the truest feeling of happiness is the security that comes with being loved.

Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight

They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

I really don't think that Turkey has become more conservative. It just so happens that the conservatives are a lot more visible today than they were previously.

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.