I’m not always fat, but when I’m thin, people don’t seem to notice. I’m seen as a fat person no matter what shape I’m in.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

If it’s going well, and even if it’s not, you know, it’s a really interesting working environment. Because you usually have a lot of fun.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, what’s the point?

It’s an odd world,

Unbeknownst to himself, he is on a kind of pilgrimage. This character, with a certain amount of self-delusion, thinks he is going to achieve closure without going through the pain of it.

You find yourself attached to five or six projects that never get made.

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

Are you asking me if I was shit? I think you are. You reckon I was probably shit at driving. I find that sort of thing offensive. I didn’t go on that show for people...

I’m working class, and want people to know I’m not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

What appealed to me was that here was this man who, on the one hand, liked to sing and entertain in local pubs, but who was also the most proficient killing machine of the last...

It’s an odd world.

It doesn’t bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that – well, let’s say that people wouldn’t aspire to be like them.”