I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.

I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.

I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.

If you're wearing a disguise for too long, it will be difficult for the mirror to recognize you. At the end of the day I hope you become the person they didn't expect you to be. Be proud to wear you.

Good results when achieved make insults cease to exist.

I've done a bunch of jobs since 'Deadwood' went off the air, but it's always been a very high bar that those other shows have to live up to.

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.

My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.

A good corroborating chain if they fail in the last link the whole will fall to the ground.

I've seen my fair share of drama over the years of Children In Need. I had a close brush with mortality in 2009 when a chain collapsed from the studio rigging. I was in mid-spout to camera when I heard an enormous crash behind me - a ton of steel had come hurtling down and smashed to the ground a few feet away.

Curiosity n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you.

If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.

Any team can win.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life.

I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.

I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.