One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

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.

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

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