Light entertainment means it mustn't teach you anything.

Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

If it weren't for fear, I wouldn't have to teach you a damn thing

In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and the ceiling came down below; I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. But then we were moved to the library. And there was a really boring history thing, about the Spanish Armada: how could you make that boring?!So I reached my hand out, and slid a book off to read under the desk, and it opened at King Lear Act Four Scene Six. I was astounded. I'd never seen language like it. I was awestruck. I think that may be one reason why I got involved in theatre.

I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.