I'm ginger, so it's hard to rate me

All the birds love Touche Eclat. It's a (concealer) pen that gets rid of eye bags. But I'm quite happy otherwise. I train a lot.

I do jump behind the bar when we're really busy, but by that point I've usually drunk too much to work.

You'd phone or knock on the door of your friend or neighbour if they hadn't appeared at your local pub or bar for a few days, just to make sure they weren't dead in the cellar.

A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.

I live in jeans, mainly Wrangler and Nudie. I like them as dark blue as they'll go and tightly woven.

I'm into the whole skincare thing.

I'm quite sexy - if you like gingers.

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

I got up to all sorts of things when I was a kid, but I've managed to take the excessive alcohol and fast vehicle combination out of my life now.

Running has been great for keeping me fit throughout my acting career.

The cloaked figure leaned over and I turned my head just as I heard the crack of bones.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher.

Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

You're dressed up like the flag, somebody get him a pole! Oh, no, no, no, I know how you can get one. Go on a date, with Michael Cole.

Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.

Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.