I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.

School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was quite pleased not to spend any more time with boys.

My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.

I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.