Everyone wants Steve to do well because he really is the nicest guy you would ever come across. When we read more

Everyone wants Steve to do well because he really is the nicest guy you would ever come across. When we were working on the movie he said to me — and he wasn't kidding — 'I'm just trying to be nice to the casting director, so if this bombs she'll at least cast me in another movie.' This was the casting director he hired.

You might as well have put her on a stage eating a plate of spaghetti and put a rope round read more

You might as well have put her on a stage eating a plate of spaghetti and put a rope round her chair instead of putting her in a theatre where she wasn't at home and was struggling.

All countries embraced some kind of change. So many parts of the world understood that this is a new world read more

All countries embraced some kind of change. So many parts of the world understood that this is a new world order, except the Arab world.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older

The people in Barrow thought we would starve.

The people in Barrow thought we would starve.

But I did feel a friendship with him.

But I did feel a friendship with him.

One of the things recessions do is uncover weak links. When you're in a strong economy, a bull market, you read more

One of the things recessions do is uncover weak links. When you're in a strong economy, a bull market, you can paper over a lot of things. When you get under some strain, these things show up.

That is going to take me two-and-a-half hours - so instead of a nice meal I'm going to be stuck read more

That is going to take me two-and-a-half hours - so instead of a nice meal I'm going to be stuck with beans on toast.

The campaigns have done of a lot of the intensive grass-roots work and electronic media — radio and TV advertising. read more

The campaigns have done of a lot of the intensive grass-roots work and electronic media — radio and TV advertising. They're clearly generating more interest than we had two years ago, and I think that'll carry through to election day.