It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera