I wasnt a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

My idea of quality is my own idea of quality. What I do and what I want to do next is my business. The next thing I fall in love with might be what you think is rubbish.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.