I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

When it comes to social issues such as the role of the family, I'm certainly more conservative than Angela Merkel. But on the big questions on what direction and where Germany should develop, when it comes to the economy, then we have very similar views.

Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.

I'd been doing shows, but I slowed down because I had a daughter and got to spend some time having more of a family life.

I created my family with the people I met in the theater and escaped in the stories I told and the characters I got a chance to play. It's just always felt like home.