Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.
As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.
Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.
When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.
Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.
At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.
We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.
The most important aspect of leading is knowing oneself. Know yourself, know the people around you, and then get on with it.
No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.
