Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.

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.

Loss

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

With awareness and practice, even the most awkward people can learn how to be both fluid and purposeful in their bearing.

I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.

People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.