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.

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

Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15.

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

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.