He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.