You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.

I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life.

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.