If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.