You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

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

My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.

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.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.