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.'

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

Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.

I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

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

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.