“I have always worried about things more than I should.”

Excellence is not an act but a habit.

It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.

I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.

I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.

Marketing is what gets you noticed.

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.

The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.

I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.

I’m not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.

I mean I can do it when I’m very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

Today’s films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.