People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.

We always need to create and re-create but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Goodness transcends badness.

I love London. I know it's an old saying but there's always something to do, so much so that when you live here you end up not actually doing much!

If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose.

We all have our own areas where we are gifted or where we struggle and that's at the heart of everyone's journey.

There is of course a dark side to panto because there are always baddies and you can't have a baddie without a dark side. But most of the time the baddies become good.

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

Although it may be the easiest, it's not always the best.

If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else’s.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.

What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?

The three drunkest cities in America: Fresno, Riverside, and whatever Mel Gibson is driving through.

I am going to eliminate every unnecessary job-killing regulation. They're choking our businesses to death.

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.