Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

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.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.