I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

I might do a fitness video. Actually, more of a fatness video.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

The Kumars... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

You've got David Petraeus and whatever the pushback might be against [Donald Trump].

We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

God knows what lives in me in place of me.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can.

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.