It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.

Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers you a free acceptance speech. There just seems to be a gap in the market. I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce & Gabbana.

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.