Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.