Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

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.

Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.

In trying to commit my life to finding and participating in some of the purposes of Christ, as I can determine them, my energies and abilities are gradually being focused and are working together.

My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future.

I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.

Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.

The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.