I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.
The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.
You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?
I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.
I know Andy Roddick's probably tired about me talking about how many times I beat him when we were kids.
A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.
I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.
If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.
I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.
It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.
Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.
People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.
This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.
Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.
When we talk, we express our preconceived thoughts, when we listen, we learn and give birth to new thoughts.
