There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.

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.

Magic is an honor, until it's a shackle.

Enthusiasm signifies God in us.

We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.

Change the narrative, change the laws.

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.

That which is imagined need never be lost.

You don't need a passport and you don't need no visas, you don't need to designate or emigrate before you can see Jesus.

The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

Love is the thing that you pursue because it's the thing that gives you all this life, or you believe that, anyway.