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.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

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.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

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