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When I was 18 years old, I had a Saturday job working in a clothing store on London's Bond Street. I would fold T-shirts for ten hours at a time and get paid £19 for the privilege.

My nickname at school was Caveman. When I tell people my name is Kayvan, some insist on going 'Caveman?'

I look at my early career, and you know, when I left drama school, for a young Asian actor, you could either play a doctor on 'Holby City,' or you could play a terrorist in 'Spooks' and get to wear a nice shiny suit.

I've never sat down and written jokes. I wouldn't know how to.

I'm good at winding up British people, but Americans are slightly different. A lot of them are more stoical. They're harder to get a reaction out of more of the time.

Just acting on someone else's set feels like a holiday, almost.

As an ethnic actor, I still feel I can't be in 'Downton Abbey' or in period dramas.

The second series of 'Fonejacker' almost killed me. It was incredibly intense.

Generating comic material can sometimes get the better of you.

I don't worry about offending people - I think most people are a lot more robust than some other people give them credit for.

Zayn is a cool name.

When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.

I have been 'absorbing' people - their voices, their mannerisms - all my life, to the point where I am a sort of Frankenstein of different people. My own speaking voice is, in fact, a mixture of how my two best mates speak, because they are cool, and I am not.

Thank God for my imagination. For my abilities to mimic.

I had to fool the world into accepting me. I didn't seem to fit the mould of my idols.

Years ago, I was watching a debate on Fox News, when I thought, 'These guys are basically like pranksters, they bring the people in and wind them up.' I was like, 'That's what I do!'

When I wind someone up, it's never to make them feel angry or aggressive; that doesn't make good telly. It's about uncovering a layer of themselves that is kind of sweet and nice.

Being funny was something I was doing before I understood what that even was. Now I'm making a career out of it.

Paul Verhoeven is one of my favourite directors. I love his ability to mash extreme violence with humour and satire.

Stanley Tucci is a classy actor, and Ian Holm is very short but equally classy - and both are also amazing.

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