I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.
If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.
If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it's generally a bad film.
I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.
I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come just to make their presence known, when the lights go down and all you can hear is people screaming.
I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.
I can't bear it when young actors do too much finger-wagging. It spoils the audience's concentration.
If I can hear the music then no, I don't hit a wrong note. But if I can't hear the music because the audience is screaming or the sound system is bad, then I'm subject to stray.
One of my least favourite gigs was a festival. There weren't many people there and they were all talking.
My focus are only films. There is something special about films as when it is being played in a dark theatre, the audience is watching only you. Whereas in TV there are a lot distraction.
It's the worst thing if you're sitting there in the theater, going, "Oh, that's the guy who dates this person and likes to do this in the morning and that in the afternoon." Then you're just watching a brand, as opposed to an actor.
I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.
