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

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'

I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.

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