If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.