Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.

I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.