I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

If you want to be thought a liar always tell the truth.

The next time you have a thought... let it go.

Although the troops have struck us we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

There was really no friendship in modeling though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots because you end up in so many unfamiliar places from Alaska to Africa.

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.

Friendship like love is destroyed by long absence though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Loyalty and friendship which is to me the same created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

If instead of a gem or even a flower we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend that would be giving as the angels give.

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book' but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me because in my view fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

Life is a very orderly thing but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

Freedom only for the members of the government only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man and diversity will continue to increase with the progress refinement and differentiation of the human intellect.

None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.

I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights their freedom to publish freedom of thought.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up to stay oppressed there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.