Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

PRACTICE MAKES THE HARD THINGS EASY

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.

I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.

I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.