"Ten years ago I would have been dumbstruck by the attitude of Equity. Nowadays, however, we appear to be conditioned …"

"If you understand comedy, you understand life. Drama, death, tragedy – everybody has these. But with humour you've go…"

"My theory is that we are all idiots. The people who don’t think they’re idiots — they’re the ones that are dangerous."

"I always say to young people, you can have the best script, be the funniest man, but if they don't laugh — you're not…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"Miles of cornfields, and ballet in the evening."

"I knew in a flash Gary had something I should never have. It is something pure and he doesn't know it's there. In tru…"

"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."