I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow.

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.

Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.

Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

The more you know the less the better.