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.

From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.

When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

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

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.