My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.