The film industry is like Anne Robinsonalways on the look-out for a new face

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

One of my friends went on a murder weekend, now he is doing life for it.

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

People who are pro smacking children say, 'It's the only language they understand.' You could apply that to tourists.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

They call it 'surfing' the net. It's not surfing. It's typing in your bedroom

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

Did I see them waving?' said Mrs Liberty'And particling, I shouldn't wonder' said the Alderman

Happiness can't be made

...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27)

But it's up to us...' he said softly. 'it's up to us not to lose this.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.