To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

I’m not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I’ve never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it,

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can’t even look her straight in the face.

I don’t crave Hollywood.

I don’t know anyone who’s suffered lung cancer.

As an actor, I’m familiar with having bursts of energy, where you’re giving things a try, and then you have down time.

I’m too much of a big kid.

I’m happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

I’ve been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

You’re spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

I’m not sure I’m the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.