Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

What we put in our bodies can make us feel depressed or anxious, and it’s the same for fitness, I think it all joins up in this big circle."

I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups.