I look like the man in the moon.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.

I love a good suit.

I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot of the time.

People misunderstand me.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!'