That is where the irony of the film comes off in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad ' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can it's so unnatural for me to do it on television in interviews in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Still and all why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do care about many of the things you care about although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.