Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've. . . I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.
I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.
A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.
Wouldn’t that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say ‘I never want to smoke again’, then spend the rest of your life saying ‘I’d love a cigarette. ’ That’s what smokers who use the Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have.
You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman. . . I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.
If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
I've met Nicole Kidman, Elton John, loads of people.
Our job if you will, is to roll the stone away. God's job is to raise the dead.
The idea now that we're going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous.
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how this individual survives amongst them, and that for me as a writer is the connection that you needed to get inside the skin of the main character and wonder how he's going to cope with all this.