The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.
I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I’ve got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders.
The reason I’m here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I’m a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write.
One minute you’re up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don’t go to college and they’ve repossessed your Bentley.
I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.
Can’t get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.
I believe that at the moment of death, that the soul is released in a molecular form, that actually goes into the – the fabric of the universe, the structure of hydrogen and nitrogen and oxygen because we’re electrically – we’re galvanic, we’re electrochemical.
Comedy makes everything accessible. Watching the news is kind of like being fed your evening pill. What’s fun about it? Nothing. And so if you can get news and information about things going on in the world through a comic platform, everything’s going to connect.
I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.
When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.
I not only believe, I believe that there are many different species of ships, there are many different species of extraterrestrials, and not all of them are up to good.
Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn’t matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada – timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
I accept sceptics, you’ve got to have challenges.
I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.
Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
I had a slight touch of Tourette’s, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
You know, even when the material wasn’t so good, I’ve gotten to work with the greats, and I’ve always given it my best shot. I’m satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.