I always thought communism was crap, really.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

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.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.