well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you
The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. Discuss.
Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.
I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope. " As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.
If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no attention whether they respond to your bow or not. You must humble yourself before everyone and consider yourself the worst of all. If we have not committed the sins that others have, perhaps this is because we did not have the opportunity - the situation and circumstances were different. In each person there is something good and something bad; we usually see only the vices in people and we see nothing that is good.
Determination. You have to be willing to put in the extra time and the extra practice to be the best.
I've been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there's ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that's a huge gift. To be able to turn that back around.