Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

Football is being used as a language in that project...The vital message being communicated to the boys and young men is about safe sex, the use of condoms and preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS.

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

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