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.

You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

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