Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

A good wife must be strong enough to pull a plough and have a very erotic physique.

Don't listen to me. I'm not a politician. I know nothing about politics. But people are cheering when something very bad happens to him [Donald Trump]. So that's got to make you think before voting for him.

I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.

I don't know if I'm brave.