You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

There's a domino effect with certain things you say.

I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

Some day the road that you choose will be your destiny The hope and the anxiety you grasped tightly Will surely move you and me, because it will become a light

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!

No matter what the level of funding or success may be, there's always money missing, and you still want to have a gorgeous image, an endless cast and a flawless rendering.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.