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.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

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 always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.