I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

I love to be the lead, but you can't always be the lead.

You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.

Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of Scum. All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.