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.

I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I do the last draft, which gives me a chance to incorporate anything the actors have come up with during the rehearsal period, so I'm very inclusive as a writer.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?