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

I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.