Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.