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

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.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

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.

Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.

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

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