Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.