When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

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

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.