I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

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.

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.

I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club...the rest doesn't matter to me. I don't care what happens on the outside.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

Put legs to your prayers

If you're too big to serve. You're too small to lead.