The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.

I think we're all born with a sense of humor. Creativity is another thing though.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

I would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.

Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand.

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

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