An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.

People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.