“To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be...” — Douglas Hodge Quote

“To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless.”

“It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.”

“As soon as I walk down that sticky six-mile patterned carpet that welcomes you at Heathrow, I buy the Sunday papers and read the fashion supplements cover to cover. Even though hardly a single word in them seems directed at any male who ever lived, I find them compulsive reading.”

“I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.”

“As a youngster, I got so much attention because I was ahead of the other kids - even when I was eight, nine years old. But I never was really seeking attention, so I didn't care about scoring 30, 40 points.”

“I know everyone thinks Dad is a little bit crazy with his training, because we train a lot harder and do more kilometres and stuff than most pentathletes. Training is full-on. It's seven or eight hours a day.”