Nick Frost

“One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second 'Lord of the Rings' film and having Gandalf in it. Why? You know, he died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell a thousand more seats? It's daft.”

“The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.”

“The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it.”

“My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.”

“I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.”

“A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.”

“I like to go home early, that's my thing. My idea of a pub crawl lasts from midday until 5 P.M., then I can go home, play with my kid, have tea and go to bed.”

“In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.”

“I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.”

“People are not going to like everything.”

“My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board.”

“There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.”

“It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.”

“I don't describe myself as a sociable person now. I can be quite... you know... grumpy? Is that a word? I guess I can be a bit grumpy.”

“Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled.”

“I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.”

“I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.”

“I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.”

“I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.”

“As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.”