I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.
If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.
Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?
The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.
Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.
I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard. . . And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that. . . " We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy.
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.
I understand how much everyone wanted to see a British winner at Wimbledon and I hope everyone enjoyed it. I worked so hard in that last game. It's the hardest few points I've had to play in my life. I don't know how I came through the final three points. . . that last game. . . my head was kind of everywhere. That last game will be the toughest game I'll play in my career, ever.