January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

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.

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.