I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

You can't really dust for vomit.

You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

I'm married to the person I fell in love with.

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

Don’t pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure.

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

The Invisible World reveals to us this Truth within its silence.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.

Can I ever know you / Or you know me?

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.

The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.