They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera

My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

Are we turning back? Because if you’re just trying to solve my post-traumatic stress problem by exposing me to rock sharks until I’m desensitized, trust me—that ship has sailed.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

People don't like to follow pessimists.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career

I do love editorials - youre free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.