The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'

When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels in a popcorn popper in the dorm room.

The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.

I'm not going to name any names, but let's just say, I want to do jokes on Donald Trump so badly, and I have no venue. So right now, I'm just dry Trumping.