In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.
Ian McLeodQuite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.
Ian McLeodI become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.
Ian McLeodWhat takes courage: no make - up. No make - up at all. Like The Matrix. I did the matrix and they had a rule all the characters in The Matrix, except the leads, of course, wore absolutely nothing on their face.
Ian McLeodIf you really want to make a difference for the customer, so what you have got to do is to make sure the products that you're bringing down in price are ones that they are buying every day.
Ian McLeodWhen you're working in the business and you are genuinely trying to do what's right for consumers, and you're trying to genuinely do what's right for suppliers, but the word doesn't get out, the word doesn't get heard because frankly the media is not interested because it hasn't got a conflict attached to it.
Ian McLeod