A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me.

The other man's arse is always cleaner!

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.