I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

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

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.