If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.

On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punchline in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

I cannot explain what's between us, Lady Newbury, other than to say that I have an uncanny urge to kiss you whenever we meet.

I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of so much doing.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best.

Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.

I want to be known as the best teammate ever.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.