I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. We can however give some, and millions of people do, governments do, but there is so much more to be done.

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'