I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

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.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

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

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.