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I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.

My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.