I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.

But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to.

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.