I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.

I never enjoyed being famous.

"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.

Initially, when I was first starting as a musician, I was a very nationalistic figure and I used to believe in doing a lot of national songs. I would always have a national song in the albums I did.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."

When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.

Imaginatively in a pictorial sense I was airborne.

You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.