I'd like it to be remembered as you had some fun. We're only here [living] for some fun. I think if you learn something, all well and good, but we're only here to give you some fun. Along the way, you may find out something.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

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

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.