When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

I always try to look for the best in most places.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

Gratitude is a blessed act.

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.

I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.

The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

I have been fortunate to have my game peak at the right times.