Tom Conti

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.