I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special - there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes.

If I am seen as successful, it's all the more reason not to change - not to lose track of friends, not to be driven everywhere, not to go and get away from the world. That, to me, is real success: enjoying what you do, but being the same person.

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.