“I was quite capable at school, but I spent a lot of time in detention.” — Dick Strawbridge Quote

I was quite capable at school, but I spent a lot of time in detention.

With a little bit of common sense, anything is achievable.

There was always laughter in our house. And I have great memories of my dad making an Ulster fry on a Saturday morning. They were legendary even though he couldn't really cook.

I'm a very simple person.

When I joined the Army in the late '70s, there was a real threat from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, so all of the '80s, I was engaged in what could be classed as conventional operations - that involved digging lots of trenches in Germany.

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'

I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

Working in a juvenile detention center, being a probation officer for at-risk youths, I'll do something like that. Something nice and stable.

I actually worked with an organization called Drama Club that works with incarcerated teens and youth in a detention center and in Rikers Island, which a lot of people don't know that teens have been incarcerated in Rikers Island.