I've got Ferraris coming out me bum.

I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

It has gone past me now, the writing phase.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

It's one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.

I spent more than 20 years of my professional career researching and developing renewable energy sources.