In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

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

My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

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.

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.