As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

On 'Death In Paradise,' I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.

Everything in politics is so stage-managed.

I'd like to have a neck. Everyone else has a neck, but I never got one; I don't know what happened. I'm not asking for much: just some sort of separation between my head and my body would be great.

I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.

Definitely the most important thing in my life is being a father.

History develops, art stands still.

Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.

I still have a young attitude.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.