While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist or if they have existed up until now that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart and what I contributed to the house was I was the funny one.

Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies it's a funny thing but I'm an exception to that rule.'

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965 I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers... for yourself. And when in doubt make funny faces.

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.