JULIAN OVENDEN

Reality TV has taken over.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?

Looking back at those great singers like Gordon MacRae and Howard Keel - they have such a specific kind of style that it seems like we don't really appreciate anymore.

What I enjoy is a collaboration. Working with other like-minded people. People who have brilliant minds and big hearts.

I read recently of the advent of a completely wireless house. Having just moved house and being drowned in billions of cords and cables, that sounds like a great thing to have.

It's a crazy - crazy - amount of talent on 'Smash.'

'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly.

It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

I just love New York, I love the people. The energy of the place. I really feel energized working here. I've always been made to feel very welcome, and it's a tremendous city.

I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intrigues.

I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.

I download TV shows more and more, especially from the U.S.

It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.

The Royals work very hard.

I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think you can go to boarding school and come out without feeling a little repressed - yes, it does leave its mark on you.

I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.

I'm not much of a musical-goer; they don't really appeal to me.

It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.

I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school, and then I got music scholarships throughout my education. And that's what I was going to do. And then I took a left turn and went to drama school and became an actor.

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.