That’s always been a good lesson to me that you’ve got to do the very best you can all the time. Now, you can’t always do that. But you can recognize when you’re goofing off, and get back on track.

Offer kindness always.

Whenever things seem absolutely terrible, to see that you’re alive and that’s all that matters.

If somebody doesn’t want to understand or see you that’s on them. You don’t have to carry that with you.

Putting ball bearings into Mum roll-on deodorant bottles in a factory, one summer when I was 17.

I just thought I was going to go into graphics and painting, which is what I wanted to do.

Strength, comfort, joy and passion.

23 June last year. The fact that certain people have chosen for us to come out of Europe is one of the saddest, divisive and unthought-through events in my lifetime.

During the ’80s, when I was in college, on the American side, it was Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver, Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now, Christopher Walken, John Savage, John Cazale, etc. All of those guys – I was blown away by the emotional impact and sincerity of their performances. And then of course, in the UK, I was going to a lot of theater at the time and watching great on stage performances from people like Jonathan Price, Albert Finney, Anthony Hopkins – all of whom really influenced me as well.

Preferably not as the guy who played Gollum.