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

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.

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.

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

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

I've certainly said I don't want to do any more bad guys, then I sit and don't do anything for a while and then think, "Okay, one more."