If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.