Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.