The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

Obsession is a young man’s game.

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.