In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.

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.

Myslím, že na místa, kde se odvíjely rozhodující události našich životů, stojí za to občas zavítat, abychom zjistili: nemáme sami se sebou nic společného.

The depth of your network is more important than its length

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

Thoughts don't have time and space, one need to hold them. The one who succeeds at them becomes a writer.

One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.