People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
Since I play piano, I can play the right hand on the accordion, no problemo. It's the left hand with the buttons that makes me crazy.
I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.
If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.
I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.
It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles and Odysseus in Homer's 'Iliad,' I can see parallels in Chinese historical romances, in the way the first emperor of the Han dynasty and his chief rival are portrayed.
I have a desk that I can raise or lower according to the state of my aching back. Sometimes I stand at it, and sometimes I have it high up to write at and sometimes a bit lower to type.
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.
I can well imagine making acquisitions so long as these are complementary to Puma and move it forward.
Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize.
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.
I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
