I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

I'm not always fat, but when I'm thin, people don't seem to notice. I'm seen as a fat person no matter what shape I'm in.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

If I feel that I've gone down the path of nice-blokeship, I quite like to remind myself, and others, that I actually can be a bit of an arsehole.

If it's going well, and even if it's not, you know, it's a really interesting working environment. Because you usually have a lot of fun.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

Just trying to get it to feel like it's not acting is very important to me. Sometimes I think, in a split second, 'Yes, I really know how to do this,' and I can see all the fall-out of it being a success. And then, in the process of doing it, it's just an exercise in major arse-twitching.