“I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.”

I haven’t got any friends from where I grew up, but that’s not to do with fame.

The buzz you get when you’re playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

I can’t think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you’re an actor.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

I don’t like to be me. I’m not so comfortable being me on screen because then I’d be a presenter. I’m not Jimmy Fallon.

Anyone who’s got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some ’50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That’s it, really – I’m not a musician, I’m not a singer.

It’s great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you’re doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

I’m constantly trying to find something that’s different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That’s not for me.

I grew up in the ’90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn’t into Boyzone, or anything.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who’s driving it.

Life is more important than ‘what film I do next.

It’s funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.

I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I’m not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.

I’m always looking for something that’s versatile from the last.

Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He’s probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can’t say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.

With my wife I don’t get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to ‘the best woman a man ever had.’ The waiter joined me.

I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.