I've always found it very hard to play the pupil game, as I call it. The one where the middle-aged actress puts her hand up and says to the director, 'Please sir, is it all right if I move over here?'

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given...

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

The Edinburgh Fringe is a tough beast and you do whatever you can to get through it. But it's really the worst place to see comedians; everyone is so tense and nervous because it feels like Ofsted...

The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am - What? Getting paid. It is my job.

'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.

Theatre and television are two totally different disciplines.

Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester's Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart's Circus as a...

Singers put emotions into songs which the actors later replicate on screen. When I know that I can also present myself well on-screen, why not do that?

I really do try and play as many festivals as possible.

The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.

Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

It's quite different to do a vocal performance, opposed to a performance where you are seen, because in some ways, you don't need to worry about what you look like - you don't have to sit in a makeup...

All theater is dance.

One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

Some artists I know, they would rather not see the audience or envision them. But for me, I'd rather see them. I feel like part of the reason I perform is to feel that connection. It's the reason I...

I've been on stage since I was six years old... Street dancing, bugaloo, moonwalking.

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about the capabilities of the people you're working with, what are their strengths and...

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

Going onstage - that's my joy. You know like when you're in school and you're just waiting for the bell to go off so you can leave the class and go and play outside? That's me in life.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with...

I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.