Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.

The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English film I did was 1998. So that's why I live here. It's because I get more work. I'll travel back for radio, you know what I mean. I've just got to consider myself to be living in the middle of the ocean, and that way I have a really nice career, if I'm prepared to do television, radio, theater, and film.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

Id like an omelet named after me.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.