Michael Ball
The bravery and pioneering of early Hollywood was absolutely incredible.
That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.
I will always tour, it's hard work it really is hard work, but the feedback and the buzz you get back from it is worth it.
Les Mis' was an amazing experience, to be in the original cast of 'Les Miserables,' and 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' God bless it that was fantastic, at the London Palladium the biggest theatre in London the most successful show that has ever been at the London Palladium, that was fantastic.
I got involved in the Surrey Country youth theatre which led me to go to drama school where I realised that this was going to have to be my career, and I was really lucky to get big breaks early on.
I'd love to explore South America, but the security issues worry me.
For the millennium, we flew to Kuala Lumpur and then on to Pangkor Laut, a nearby island.
When I was 19 and at drama school, a couple of friends and I decided to drive from Guildford through France, down to the heel of Italy and then take a ferry to Greece - in an MG Midget. On our second day, in France, we were in a very bad accident and wrote off the car so we had to go home. But we then flew out instead and went island hopping.
The one I really get on with is Princess Anne. Talk about calls a spade a shovel! And she's so clued-up. She's a patron of a number of charities. I've been involved in a couple and she's not just a name. She knows the research programmes that are going on. She really does her homework.