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.

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

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.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

I guess some problems were too big to fix and you just hoped they would take care of themselves.

Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to be Angelina Jolie.

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

More than blood passes through the human heart.

I'd love to have time to do my hair, honestly. I'd love to be Victoria Beckham just for one day - to look that good. But I can't.

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.