David Walliams

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat... I just feel really happy in the water.

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.