I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.

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

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.