I always loved asking everybody when I arrived in England, from the drivers who picked me up to the people at the hotel to people I met when I was walking in the park, almost everyone at some point would say, 'Everyone loves Ant & Dec!' From eight to 80.

I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity. It's the purest experience.

The chaos of my life has a lot to do with my hair.

We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.

Globalisation is happening so fast it's confusing for people, and tolerance is threatened.

I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.

I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.

I wake up as soon as it gets light.

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Every relationship is work.

My wife and I got to go onstage at a Flaming Lips concert at Webster Hall once. We dressed up like Scientology aliens and danced around. We had a shootout onstage with Santa Claus.