Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

I took my children to see 'Son of Rambow,' about two boys who make a home movie with a video camera. When you have children, culturally you become involved in their life.

They say the mind can move mountains, I think it can move the whole god damn universe. Or else how have we travelled to other planets?

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility.

What you don't see with your eyes don't invent with your tongue.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

Making more money will not solve your problems if cash flow management is your problem.

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.