This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.