If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

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.

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

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

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

Somebody asked me recently, 'Have you done a lot of plays?' I thought hang on. I used to do nothing but plays. I've been very fortunate that on several occasions I've had jobs where I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer - however much money you've got.

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