Actor

I'm really superstitious.

Wilbur Smith's novels make terrific holiday reading.

I will always tour, it's hard work it really is hard work, but the feedback and the buzz you get back from it is worth it.

I have a family who are desperately not interested in sharing their life with the world.

You will never, ever catch me at the gym.

The biggest myth I'd like to bust isn't about me - it's about musicals. So many people dismiss the entire art form through highbrow snobbery, but I think a lot of those people would be suprised if they actually saw some.

I tap my fingers and cheekbones before going on stage to calm down. But nerves are necessary; if you ever lose them, it's a bad sign.

Theatres, stages are dangerous places.

All you have to offer as a performer is yourself.

Musicals aren't two-dimensional froth.

I send a text every day to my partner Cath, saying 'I love you.'

I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. But then a lady at the youth theatre asked me if I'd ever thought of going to drama school.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

I got involved in the Surrey Country youth theatre which led me to go to drama school where I realised that this was going to have to be my career, and I was really lucky to get big breaks early on.

I had Steven Spielberg on my radio show.

Legally we have integration, social acceptance and diversity... but that doesn't mean... everybody is down with it.

Bacharach has such a brilliant ear for melody and his music has a completely timeless feel to it; I thought it would be great to do a whole album of his music and to record with a full orchestra and big band which is something I hadn't done before.

For the millennium, we flew to Kuala Lumpur and then on to Pangkor Laut, a nearby island.

You can't ever make assumptions about a family tree.

I absolutely love 'Big Brother' and 'Celebrity Big Brother' and have never missed a series - but I would never appear on them.