I don’t know, because I spend like a man with three arms. I am always spending on clothes; I like to have things made.

My half-electric Volvo.

I took the whole family to live in the Basque Country for a year. My children and I have a hereditary blood condition so I took out a health insurance policy. I’m still furious that none of us so much as stubbed a toe.

I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.

As a kid I used to fantasize about being Clayton Moore, the masked hero in The Lone Ranger. I’m much too old to play him now – I’d have to be the baddie who he kills – although I do have a horse as King Arthur, well someone clopping along behind me with a pair of coconuts.

Every bad thing that’s happened, apart from Mum and Dad dying, it’s always led to something better. Always.

I don't like people who are selfish.

I spent years trying to work out the secret of acting. I read all the books by the great teachers and got nowhere. They were so busy making it sound complex. I just couldn’t figure it out. Then one day my acting coach in LA told me to ‘think before you act’. It was so simple – when you are acting don’t just speak the words, but concentrate and think about what you are going to say all the time. It worked for me.

My tendency to be inappropriate.

"I'd rather keep quiet and have people think I am stupid than open it and prove I am." I was selling cars to pay my way through university. The company car buyer said that to me.