The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.

That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.