I did an interview years ago and, after it finished, I made some passing comment about sex getting better as you get older – and they used that as the headline. The day the paper came out, I was in a restaurant with the family when a woman on the table next to me leaned over and said, in a sultry voice, “I read your article this morning.”

Fifteen years ago, I totally forgot my lines on stage and was mortified. We skipped two pages of dialogue and took three minutes off the play – to the delight of the audience!

I’ve shat myself in public three times. It’s never quite as bad as you fear.

There have been frequent occasions when I have woken up on the tube to find people taking pictures of me.

Finding a tenner in your jeans pocket. It has always been there but you find it at the moment you really need it.

Curious, playful and silly.

Telesales – having to sell terrible kitchens. I thought, maybe I’m not a good actor because I can’t even convince myself that these kitchens are worth paying for.

When I was naive to the complexities of life.

I don’t think anything scares me. It’s a gift and I want to embrace it.

To a resistant materials teacher at secondary school called Mr Noel. He had a comb-over and whenever he turned his back to write on the blackboard, we would roll up bits of paper and launch them at his head. Once, I hit him. I remember him turning around and looking crestfallen.