I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.

Democracy is worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying losing cheating and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

We are perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures the worrying animal. We worry away our lives fearing the future discontent with the present unable to take in the idea of dying unable to sit still.

As a kid I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.