I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.