The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.

So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going

Liberation is an interesting word, because you can be liberated from external things, and also from your internal dialogue.