If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.