[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.

When are you ever settled enough to have kids?

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You're treading on very thin ice.

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.