Ashley Walters

“I would love to have a chat with Michael Jackson. For the sole purpose of seeing if he has a deep voice or not. A lot of people say he actually had a deep baritone, but then on TV he always had the high pitched squeaky voice. I would love to spend some time with him.”

“I have been saying to my agent and my wife for many, many months that I am going to be James Bond one day. I hope I'm not too 'street' for it.”

“I wanted to show that I could take on roles that were a bit softer and more caring.”

“My mother was - and is - a very strong woman; very strict. She was a serious mum; a feared parent.”

“Whatever I want, the next car or the next house, I stick a picture of it to the back of my door, so I can look at it first thing in the morning and dream it into existence.”

“Politics isn't about helping people, it's about maintaining whatever people have got, whatever it takes to maintain their position at the expense of us.”

“A lot of people out there are not content with their life, but I am.”

“My dad spent most of my childhood behind bars. He went to jail 17 or 18 times. It was only when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004 that we started to have a relationship.”

“Drake is involved heavily, and they're kind of working away to find the right home for 'Top Boy,' whether that be Netflix, whether it be on TV, whether it be Amazon, I don't know.”

“I think it's difficult for people to understand that when you come from an impoverished background you're very limited in the way you think.”

“My mum was well-travelled, well-educated and made me understand from books, from my imagination and from just taking me away on holiday once a year, wherever she could, that the world was bigger than Peckham.”

“I'd love to have a farm and some space for my kids.”

“There was a danger when I was in So Solid and we made '21 Seconds.' But we're just showing a slice of life.”

“I had a good three or four months of mad depression where I thought, I'm not doing this any more, it's brought me nothing but problems, I can't take it. My own label didn't want to touch me. A lot of people just shut doors.”

“When it comes to friends, as in people to relax with, that's my wife and my kids.”

“As an actor, you're different in every role.”

“My mum put me into the Sylvia Young Theatre School aged four, and I'd go there at weekends.”

“I don't want to force anyone to give me a job. I want to be the right person for the part.”

“I never wanted my kids to have the experience of not knowing me or where they came from. I never want them to wonder, 'Did he love me?' I want to be there at the pivotal moments, for them to know how proud I am of who they are becoming.”

“When I was young I wanted to be a bus driver, because my grandad was a conductor on the Routemasters.”