Quotes from Carrie Hope Fletcher

Things might change in the sense the world has progressed and we now have social media and other ways to bully each other, but at the heart of everything the problems are all still the same. Things I went through, my mum went through when she was a teenager and her mum went through when she was a teenager, and so on and so forth.

I've grown a thick skin.

I really hope post-Covid no one asks me when I'm going to get a real job again.

There is something about a live performance that you just cannot replicate anywhere else. Live streaming has been wonderful but it's just not same as sitting there and experiencing that electricity, with a group of other people that you don't even know and all being brought together.

Using social media alongside my acting career has worked wonders on both ends.

I always think with new musicals, buying tickets is always a gamble.

It was a very normal working-class family. My dad used to play guitar in a band around pubs and clubs and stuff, so we've always been surrounded by music and we all love musicals. There was really no escape from it as a child. It just manifested itself in me and my brother in that we want to be actors.

I've been writing ever since I was a child: I used to give my English teacher extra homework and say, 'What do you think of it? Give me a mark.'

Girls are worried about the same things: loneliness, falling out with friends, the pain of being excluded, another girl trying to poach their best friend, and worrying about how to make friends or keep friends.

When I was younger and I did West End shows like 'Les Mis,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'Chitty,' I was blissfully ignorant - it was amazing to be a part of, but I didn't realise the scale of it all and how important a role it would play in my life when I grew up. It was just a fun thing I'd do every couple of days.

There is a certain limitlessness to children's novels. You can be as fun and imaginative and creative as you want and your audience is going to believe it because they still have that huge imagination.

Every now and again I feel people know too much, or ask too many questions, so I shut my laptop and delete Twitter.

I wore out the VHS of the 'Les Mis' 10th anniversary. Lea Salonga played a big part in my childhood; I was very influenced by her Eponine.

Casting someone capable of the job who also happens to put bums on seats has always been invaluable to a producer.

It is really important for young girls to see a more natural shape on stage and not your supermodel sizes - seeing someone the same size as them.

I have so much fun writing for children.

When I started, YouTube had only been around over a decade, which is just seconds in the grand scheme of things.

I was acting long before I began making videos on YouTube. But without the platform, would people have paid attention to what I had to offer in quite the same way? I don't think they would have and I think what we pay attention to now has been shaped by social media.

I write mainly on trains because when I'm at home I'll be making YouTube videos or editing or just sitting down having a cup of tea as much as I possibly can.

I used to be terrible at understanding what the boundaries are and where YouTube ended. You can feel exposed online with literally the entire world watching you, but it is an amazing platform.

I'd seen Justin Bieber using YouTube as a platform to get himself noticed and I thought it could be a way to get my voice out there.

A cast mate once told me having a YouTube channel was cheating.

Well, I really enjoyed drama classes at school, but I left at 16 and started writing a musical with my brother. Because of that I missed out on going to college in general - it was take that chance or not and maybe miss out on something incredible.

There are more ways to bully each other now with the Internet but there are also more ways to talk about it and more people that you can reach and more connections to be made over the Internet.