Keith Allen

I love reading when I'm on holiday.

— Keith Allen

I hardly ever drink.

— Keith Allen

I do a very good Sunday roast.

— Keith Allen

My childhood hero was Roy Rogers.

— Keith Allen

I'm actually a rather dull man.

— Keith Allen

My whole life has been a holiday!

— Keith Allen

I love all aspects of performance.

— Keith Allen

I don't like the taste of alcohol.

— Keith Allen

I knew Joe Strummer back in the days before he formed the Clash.

— Keith Allen

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

— Keith Allen

There's so much mythologising around me.

— Keith Allen

I was always a late developer - in every field.

— Keith Allen

I don't like going to parties, I like having parties at home.

— Keith Allen

I can't have wet wool next to my skin because it really affects it.

— Keith Allen

One Direction prove you can generate success from anything.

— Keith Allen

I've always maintained if you want to act you should get yourself a life first.

— Keith Allen

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

— Keith Allen

If you're on a film set for 48 weeks of the year, you're nowhere near reality. You can't emote like a human being.

— Keith Allen

We are governed by consumerism and it's terrible when that is all that life is geared to.

— Keith Allen

Journalists have so much newsprint to fill, the details are the last of their considerations.

— Keith Allen

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

— Keith Allen

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

— Keith Allen

If everybody was a bank clerk, then I would be a rebel. But if everyone was a rebel, then I promise you…

— Keith Allen

Give me some grilled halloumi and a bit of hummus to snack on, and I'm in heaven.

— Keith Allen

I am certain things to certain generations. Lots of people remember me from the 'Comic Strip,' there was the 'Vindaloo' song for…

— Keith Allen

I'd done performance art sporadically from about 1976 - very personal street things on my own. Acting seemed like a natural step…

— Keith Allen

Unlike virtually everyone else, I know how to work a room. That comes in pretty handy. If you're not getting any laughs,…

— Keith Allen

I was brought up on stuffed hearts, cabbage and mashed potatoes. It's repulsive, when I look back - I used to go…

— Keith Allen

My father was the biggest influence on my own parenting because I became the complete opposite to him. He found it very…

— Keith Allen

I can honestly say that throughout the 70s I never watched telly. I can remember 'Dr Who' and 'Morecambe and Wise' vaguely,…

— Keith Allen

I'll take anyone to task about UB40. They were as important as Bob Marley in getting reggae into the consciousness of British…

— Keith Allen

It must have been horrible for my parents to see me go from public school to comprehensive to detention centre to borstal.…

— Keith Allen

Punk changed everything. It blew away all the dull, pompous stuff that happened before, like glam rock. Kids were getting involved in…

— Keith Allen

I didn't really do any acting until I was about 28. I just did odd jobs.

— Keith Allen

Anything to do with Heathrow is a nightmare.

— Keith Allen

We make our own pesto. Our own chutney and jams.

— Keith Allen

A lot of what journalists write is drivel.

— Keith Allen

I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches.

— Keith Allen

Without history we are nothing, so it's worth finding out something about it.

— Keith Allen

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

— Keith Allen