Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

If you got the balls to follow something through, you can end up being the coolest, smartest guy in the room, because you've literally put your ass on the line.

I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.