I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.

So, you don't have laughs as a reference point any more, it becomes a bit of a science after that. And the last thing, you would love to be able to depend on a sense of spontaneity, but hours of waiting and then hours of repetition are not conducive to spontaneity so those are your obstacles. On the other hand it's a lot of fun. Plunging into a bit of physical comedy and abandoning all dignity, no one can really hurt you much after you much after that, once you've done it.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.