I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man.

I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?

I like to think I'm some savage realist.

People presume just because you're a bigger bloke that you wouldn't be physically fit or up for the fight, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

People are not going to like everything.

My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.