"I get so excited when I know I’m going to a good restaurant, then, when I do the review, I write myself up into such …"

"My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid — he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every week, but as far …"

"I wanted to be a great literary novelist so that people would eventually talk about Alan Coren the scribbler and fath…"

"The Jewish religion has it completely right in maintaining you should think very carefully about what you eat."

"I am very snobby. My family is Orthodox so I would never go to a Reform rabbi."

"Deep into his sixties (he never made it to his seventies), he would tap his fag hard against his brass Zippo like a s…"

"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…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"