People would be surprised to know that: " I was a punk rocker in my youth" I'd been the lead singer with a rock & roll band called 'Jerk me to eternity'

"I thought I was'nt too bad a singer," he recalls, "but I really did'nt want to be a pop-star, it was'nt my thing. I have a good voice, but when it comes to song-writing, it's not for me. So that would reduce me to either doing covers or relying on other people to write songs for me, and I don't think that's fulfilling." Does he still sing? " Yeah," he laughs, but usually just in the bathroom."

How good are you on a lilo? Very good, I'll do it anywhere.

How far would you chase a girl to get what you wanted from her? I'm far too shy to really chase after someone. I've always let women come to me which I know sounds really awful but I find it works.

Now, Ben, Sorry! What'll you do to me if I keep calling you that? - "I'll spank you. I'll put you over my knee and whip your arse."

Have you ever had shrinkage? Never had, never will, other than in bed.

Once I got very drunk and passed out naked on the bathroom floor, and later found out that the girl I liked was the one who'd picked me up and put me to bed. I woke up with no clothes on except my boxer shorts round my ankles.

Men enjoy the chase, even if they're having a terrible time, because when they finally get what they want, they think the grass is greener somewhere else.

(Starhunter) One day I was walking Dawn to her car, and we were held up by two guys. One pulled a gun out, but because I've been working for seven months with people pulling guns on me, it really didn't have the impact it should have-...-I struggled with this guy, and he cracked me with his gun and split my forehead open.

Nick Stabile (Mark, SB) was over at my house shortly after Derek had killed him on the show, and the [internet fans] were saying a lot of nice things about him. Nick wasn't feeling great at the time, so I set him up online but told him whatever he did, not to say who he was because he'd give away my private internet address. Later I got all this mail with people asking 'are you Ben?' I called Nick and told him he'd been a naughty boy!

At Spelling's Christmas party: Sam Behrens (Gregory, SB) initiated a food fight, and I joined in, unfortunately. He has that mental power over me and there's nothing I can do about it. It was just bread - and we stopped short of beef.

Clive decided to pull a prank on the Susan: I had a towel wrapped round me that I take off, and I told her, I'm not wearing anything . Is that okay? And she looked at me and said .."yeah". He literally dropped his cover. "I got her going!" the actor chuckles. "But when I took the towel off, I was actually wearing boxer shorts".

The actor is recognised the world over. "It is a weird feeling," he admits. "I got mauled in 'Boots' when I was in England recently." (a well known English chemist/drug-store)

"I don't understand this 'sexiest' sort of thing," he says. "I think my best quality is my sense of humour."

"Acting is like golf -- it's an amazing challenge. It's never bored me, but the moment I think I've finally cracked it will be the moment I give it up. "

"In all seriousness, I prefer theatre as a medium, only because I'm a bit of perfectionist and theatre allows you to perfect your performance. Having said that, it doesn't pay very well. "

" After doing double duty for six months, I went slightly insane," Robertson says. "It was all beginning to blur. I'd learn pages and pages of dialogue, but then I'd go off on these ad-libbed monologues!"

"We turned out on the first day having put on these leather trousers and various bits of armour ...and they were having this Indian summer when we arrived. So we get on set and it's literally 125 degrees (Laughs) or at least it felt like it and poor old Steve (Rudolpho) we thought was going to melt into a little umm pool of water on the floor . "

"The thing that I haven't done as an actor is that I haven't done movies. I'd actually like to start doing some films and I am interested in the concept of directing. Whether or not I'll get around to doing it; I don't know. It certainly interests me and the more you're in the business, the more you learn, and I feel like I'd make a good director. "

"For the first year I was on Sunset Beach, I would continually catch people looking at me as if I had said something so shocking and so politically incorrect that I wasn't even set to live on this planet! They slowly realized it was just my British sense of humour."

"I'll be honest, I have pleasures, but none that I feel guilty about."

"The thought of denying myself is against my nature. If I want to do something, I'll do it."

"My gut feeling is that men, biologically, are not monogamous. How else do you explain the drive to procreate?"

"I'm buying some land up in Malibu and building a house. I am completely useless when it comes to carpentry or anything of that nature, but I am good at telling other people what to do. [Chuckles] I have a good vision, and I am quite creative."

I'm a philasophical person & I'm pretty good at rolling with the punches.You have to look at the lighter side or things could destroy you, and if you take that attitude, you certainly win. (Soap Dish, Nov 4th 1997)

I didn't turn to acting because I thought I was good at it. I was drawn to it because it presented such an enormous challenge. I knew it was something I'd have to work hard at.