Always bring a pack of baby wipes with you.

When you're nuts about motorbikes, sooner or later, you get to the point where you really want to do a long journey.

No-one's ever satisfied.

In places such as Kazakhstan and Mongolia people depend on each other a lot more. We can often be quite detached in the West, with e-mail and telephones, whereas in those countries people rely on each other more. It's lovely because you feel like, although you're a stranger, they respect you as a friend and want to help you.

Everyone wants their children to go to school, to have a job, a roof over their head, feed their children.

I'm amazed how unable I am to deal with the demands that are made on me as an actor. Not the one I enjoy, which is standing in front of a camera or onstage pretending to be someone else but everything else that comes with it.

Mongolia was unbelievable. Great parts of it are completely untouched by modern development, but the roads, when you could even call them that, were terrible and we'd find ourselves on the wrong route without any warning.

I don't have to win at tennis. I have a friend who is so competitive at tennis I sometimes throw a game because I know it means so much to him.

I'm competitive but I'm not butch.

I always think that a bit sad - that people think their wives would stop them doing what they wanted to do.