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?

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

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

Don't work out, work in.

If you're going to do an interview about a movie or anything like that, you're vulnerable. You say stupid things. Or if you're applying for a green card you feel very vulnerable and you're likely to spout out something stupid in the middle of it all.

I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.