When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

In the absence of fear there is little faith.