You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

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?'

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

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.

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.