I don't watch 'The X Factor' any more. Why do I want to see someone say the same old thing - it's all they've ever dreamed about - then lose and burst into tears and go into neurosis? They just want to be famous - it doesn't matter how.
While I've got my health and fitness, I'm available... except for panto, of course. Too bloody much like hard work.
When you're young, for God's sake, get out and try everything in terms of a career. Or go abroad, meet people.
I always say it is not the arrival; it is the journey.
What intrigues me is that there are funny people in the real East End. It's famous for it. There'd be blokes dressing up as women as a lark, but 'EastEnders' seems blind to the fact that they enjoy a laugh. There should be a cheery chappy on there.
I'm happier being out of the limelight, at home with the family.
I hadn't been to drama school. I hadn't been to university and acted there. I had no qualifications behind me.
I always wanted to fly. When I was in theatre, I used to go up on Dunstable Downs on my day off to watch the gliders, to get away from it all.
I'm a twin, but only I emerged live from the womb. The fact that I was originally one half of a duo gave rise to a theory, much propounded in newspaper profiles, that my life has been one desperate effort to compensate for that stillborn brother.
My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.
Despite offers, I have never felt the urge to try to make it in Hollywood.
All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.
How do I feel about being called a national treasure? I think it's marvellous if that's people's opinion. But I'd rather have the money than the label.
We get the impression through film and TV that Americans are violent gangsters with guns or upper-middle-class people in romcoms. I really liked the people. They were really warm. They could have been Brits. I mean that in the nicest possible way.
There are certain values that, in my opinion, television has lost - various moral lines. How far you go in, say, revealing what people get up to on reality TV, and also graphic violence and swearing - the taboo of various swear-words is no longer there. It's worrying.
I've met a lot of military men in my time. After they retire, they are still extremely game. They dress perfectly and have impeccable manners. They always end up as secretaries of golf clubs. I have great admiration for them.
Don't get me started on BBC salaries. We were never the big league. Situation comedy has always been the poor relation in the television entertainment business.
Journalists are out to trap me with my underwear showing.
While I'm hale and hearty, I've no thought in my mind to retire.
The ups and downs are part of what has made you.
