We truly feel we have been micromanaged and minimized as professionals.

The human aspect has to be minimized, but what do you do? All we can give back to the audience is from the [monetary] resources we receive.

We're here for the quality of the coaching and Tom's emphasis on sportsmanship.

Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel.

a lot of professionals won't come back.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.