It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."

If you have been, I'm glad you've stopped.

Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.