I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

As an actor, I'll play anything.