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.

It's so infectious to watch people having fun.

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

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.

The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

Whenever I visit my family in Canada, I remind myself that what many Americans would consider forthright, many Canadians would consider overbearing.

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

I get up because there is just so much out there and you just don't know what's going to happen, that's the great thing.

It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

Do me a favor." "Don't lick your seat belt?" Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from?

The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.