Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.

80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.

Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.

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?'

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

The trouble with women? Elbows.