When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

Life's too short. Start with Dessert!

I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.