Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.

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.

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.