Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

Girls go out together to see a chick flick or something. I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

I woke up one day and realized I could never be an American.

My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered military man, he was unaware that the Russian Revolution was about to take place.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.