Quotes from Keith Allen

Women are women's own worst enemy. They rip each other apart.

My childhood hero was Roy Rogers.

Women want to be entertained. They want value for money from a man. You have to have the whole package.

My father was the biggest influence on my own parenting because I became the complete opposite to him. He found it very difficult to show physical love, like cuddling and that kind of stuff, so I went the other way.

Jeremy Corbyn... love him. Right person, right time. He's like a poultice, drawing Blairite disease out of the Labour party.

When I've had money I've always spent it. I don't invest. A pension? Yes, it's called my talent.

A performer, that's what I am, only I can perform in different areas.

If you look at the people in the Occupy and tax-evading movements, they come from all walks of life and have embraced that attitude of opposition from the 1970s.

I guess there's a part of me that loves institutionalism. And borstal is tailor-made for you to buck against. It was perfect.

I don't suffer from what I believe a lot of actors suffer from, in that they have to do certain things to be an actor, like endlessly study the script and endlessly think about the character. I wouldn't advise that to anybody.

I do a very good Sunday roast.

In the summer, 80 per cent of what I eat comes from my allotment. I grow everything from beetroots and leeks to apples and plums.

My mother was Welsh and I loved going to Wales every summer, where Uncle Les had a farm. My mother had seven brothers and a sister and they were all very close. There would always be food on the table and uncles coming in and out. My father's family were English and lived in London, and we didn't really see them.

You can't learn how to have presence. I walk into a room and people say 'I wonder where he's been?' When other people walk in, they say 'I wonder where he's going?'

I'd done performance art sporadically from about 1976 - very personal street things on my own. Acting seemed like a natural step from that. But I didn't really want to 'be' anything: presenter, comic, actor. I just wanted to perform.

I was always a late developer - in every field.

I have no ambition whatsoever. I don't know whether that's because I'm afraid of losing, or of failure - of not being the best.

I don't want to be loved. No interest in being loved whatsoever. Actually, I don't mind being misunderstood either.

I hate technically constructed actors. In fact, I hate anything technically constructed, unless it's a bridge.

There must be something about me and teeth when I'm filming abroad, I don't have a lot of luck.

The act of littering annoys me more than anything, particularly drivers who throw stuff out of the car window.

I'm very old fashioned. I'm from an era where your phone is in the house so if you are pottering in the garden then you won't hear it ring.

One Direction prove you can generate success from anything.

I can honestly say that throughout the 70s I never watched telly. I can remember 'Dr Who' and 'Morecambe and Wise' vaguely, but my generation didn't watch telly.