Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.
The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.
We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.
If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.
I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.
I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.
I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.
I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.
I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.
But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.
If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.
Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.
The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
