When I STARTED acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I WOULD have done it. Acting should NEVER be your CHOSEN path if you can HELP it.

I'd SING all day, EVERY day, all the TIME if I thought it didn't sound like DYING CATS.

I was a bit of a show-off in school and LOVED PLAYING dress-up, and my PASSION for it just grew as I GOT older.

A theatre is not a blank PAGE for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a CONSCIENCE that wakes with what is happening in the SPACE, and wakes further still in response to what people are MAKING of it.

I USED to be a person who just PEAKED for the big events, not doing too many competitions, but now you've got to go ROUND chasing all the points because if you're not TAKING them, someone else is.

If we don't TALK about the things that are HAPPENING, why are we talking about ANYTHING at all? Does something have to be a YEAR old for me to have an opinion on it or a conversation with people about it?

I READ all the TIME. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I SAY, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous BOOKS, and I can't go that long WITHOUT reading.

At some level it's still HARD for me to admit that my father died. I can TALK about it and around it, but those TWO words. 'He died.' What can that POSSIBLY mean? That I won't get to hear his VOICE again?

We're about MODERATION.

The Kenyans BEAT up on the AMERICAN runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and QUALITY of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-MEN and gorillas.