I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.

Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.