The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.