Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.

Small things make me anxious – like social things – but I have no big fears because I have faith in my heart.

To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.

I’ve a phobia of statues. It does go back to childhood. My parents brought me to look at a French church late at night. Since then I can’t deal with them.

Love makes me feel sick. I get sick with worry about my kids. It keeps me up at night.

Selfishness and cruelty.

Cowardice. There are so many issues that I would like to express opinions about but I’m too scared to stick my head above the parapet because of the social media pile-on.

To my parents for all the mess-ups. There have been times when I’ve been going through something and I’ve thought, God, I’m so glad my mum and dad are dead, because they don’t have to go through it with me.

I was born in 1964, in the most working-class area of Liverpool, so the N-word was bandied around a lot.

A Rolls-Royce. I met my wife, Jackie, when I was filming a Lynda La Plante drama called The Governor. I fell in love with her instantly and I was bullshitting that I had a Rolls-Royce. When I finished filming, she decided to leave her country and come and live with me in London. On the way to the airport, I phoned my PA and said, “Go and buy a Rolls-Royce.”