I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.

Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

Where hatred exists, let love be your final thoughts.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.