I think it’s because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it’s so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.
We don’t know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.
I could take an umbrella and balance it on my chin or on my foot. And I just got interested in that kind of thing. And as I played games more and more and got stronger physically, I just became more coordinated.
The English contribution to world cuisine – the chip.
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.
The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn’t the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.
Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation – look – please try to understand before one of us dies.
I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.
I’ve always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.
I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they’ve ceased to be of any use to either of you. I’m always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
You don’t have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life’s about change.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.
Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There’s so much I don’t understand.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that’s to get rid of all my other desires.
I don’t understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they’ve already got.
Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.