It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

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.

The trouble with women? Elbows.

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.