I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!

You've got to take the positives.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.

A big part of the fun of working on Superman has been coming up with new characters and concepts to toss in, helping to design their costumes, things like that. And I spent ages coming up with the name 'Fortress of Solidarity,' so I want to get as much use out of it as I can!

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

Once you've established yourself with hits that become part of people's lives, then they pretty much always want to see you.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards.

The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.

'Danity Kane' was a wonderful group, and like all things, nothing is forever. We had a great run and we were very successful.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

A ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.

To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

What matters is that my daughter is surrounded by love. I believe in the right to go down the path that feels best for you.

The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there.

I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it