That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean.

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.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is.

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

Now, games have been democratized. Everyone plays games.

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

What the masses want are monuments.

It's none of your business what people say about you.

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.

The family consists of those who live under the same roof with the pater familias ; those who form (if I may use the expression) his fire-side.