I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.

The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.

Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.

I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.