If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.