Timothy Spall

"It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them." Timothy Spall

Michael Sheen

"I have an obsessive fear of breaking the rules – I'm much better at understanding them. I'd like to think that if I do ever break the law I'll do it with panache and élan." Michael Sheen

Roald Dahl

"The line between roaring with laughter and crying because it’s a disaster is a very, very fine line." Roald Dahl

Sam Riley

"I’m working myself into a moody corner." Sam Riley

Daniel Auteuil

"I've turned down roles out of superstition because they touched on my neuroses and I didn't want to have to deal with that." Daniel Auteuil

Peter Carey

"I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book." Peter Carey

Larry David

"I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it’s hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood." Larry David

Daniel Day Lewis

"I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling; I like it a lot." Daniel Day-Lewis

David Remnick

"The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy." David Remnick

Aidan Moffat

"Despite what you may learn about me from some of the songs on the album, I'm actually much closer to the jolly fat man stereotype than you might guess. At least that’s what I’m telling myself." Aidan Moffat