I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen.

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.

I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.