I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.

I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

I pay our nanny more than Im earning.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

I'm worried about losing my hair. I think if I lost my hair, I'd lose a lot of parts. And I don't want to get fat. I'm always worried about that.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

It bothers me when people have no problem paying for all they can eat but have problems investing in all they can be.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

I am comfortable with myself, and this is how I am. I am not really interested in having an acrimonious fight with somebody.

I like small stories.

Most people get an appointment at a beauty parlor... I was committed!

When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!"

Life isn't about getting more. It's about becoming more.