Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.
“As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.”
“If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.”