Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15.

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

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.

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.

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.

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