There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.

If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.

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

I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly.