Being a very tall person, I have always felt a kinship with giraffes.
The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.
I think that when you have that really strong desire to work with someone it's because, instinctively, you feel you have a certain kinship.
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
Families have a sense of kinship that no four strangers would ever have as a team.
I can't say to Elton, 'Hey, let's walk around the corner and have a coffee.' Someone as well-known as that can't go anywhere in the world without being recognised. Elton has written the soundtrack to a lot of people's lives, so they feel a kinship with him, so they come up, and that does colour things.
Sharing the same meal reaffirms kinship.
When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature and the landscape. I have great affection for Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, but there's still this distance: looking on at what I'm admiring, separate from what I am. And that's OK.
I've never felt any sense of kinship with other comedians; they've always seemed too needy.
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.
