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

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.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data.

Stoller is one of my favorite comedic directors - one of my favorite directors that I've worked with to date.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

The greatest challenge of community life is to create synthesis embracing diversity in a unified whole resolving differences with the healing spirit of love and dedication to the good of the whole.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'

I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

Maybe I'm wrong because I've not met the person yet, I really don't think I'd want to be with someone in the industry. I really don't think so. Once bitten, twice shy.

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Do all the good you can & create a life that feels good on the inside,not one that just looks good on the outside. It is inner beauty which matters most.

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.

When I first came into the business, I had to, for the sake of being able to sell myself as an artist, always be happy and jovial and smiling. I was the happy nice girl, and I am the happy nice girl, but I have my moments, too.

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.

A comedy isnt about being funny a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

With 'Brick,' the style with language and the way it was shot was to create a world obviously elevated from the very first frame above a typical high school.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

Mind expressed as text sits quiet like a fire under moss.

I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

I see myself as a bit of a traveller. I am a workaholic.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.