When you're surrounded by brilliant people it really is just easy to do your job.

It's so infectious to watch people having fun.

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

There's a reason people love watching blooper reels of actors falling about laughing.

When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments when you can see someone is trying not to laugh.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.

I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.

Just in the course of an hour, people didn't need to be persuaded. They just needed to hear, oh my god, there is another plan here which is about the public interest.

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.