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

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

My shoes are size 2 and a 1/2, the same size as my feet

I never enjoyed being famous.

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

Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.

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.