I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.

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

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether you're on camera or whether you're on stage in a room full of people.

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.