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.

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

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

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

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.