The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.

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.

God save us all from good-looking men.

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.

Working in an open air is a magic! If you are tired of the walls surrounding you, work in the fields to heal yourself!

Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.

Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

I love dressing up. I'm from a huge African family and grew up in a really colorful place. The way I dress reflects my environment and wanting to take people into a fantasy world for half an hour.