I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

All the best performers bring to their role something more something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet as well as one of the wealthiest but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah fashion merchandising adoption melodramas the gym and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired and I've put them all to work onstage.