“Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?”

“I was probably cool around the end of 2002.”

“I don't like 'cool telly.'”

“I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.”

“I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.”

“Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.”

“Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.”

“I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.”

“In 1988, Christmas, that was my last performance because I moved to Hawaii to raise my son.”

“A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer.”

“What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.”

“When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”