I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.