Quotes About Panto

I've always been very passionate about acting. I appeared in panto in the Everyman from the age of five.

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

We learnt a lot from doing Panto, actually back when we were still doing 'SMTV: Live.' We learnt how far we could push things and the show was all the better for that. I think that taught us you really have to know your audience because you could see how they would react to things.

While I've got my health and fitness, I'm available... except for panto, of course. Too bloody much like hard work.

Ah, he said. I had an . . . artistic disagreement with the director of the panto. As it happens, I take issue with the objectification of women in Cinderella, and the reliance on shoes as a means of identification. Surely you understand.

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

I would never claim to be an actor as I have never had any training and apart from being in a panto, before 'Skins' I had not acted.

We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'

I've done panto down the years, I love that. So never say never for anything.

'Panto!' is basically my life. It's not a comedy drama; it's a documentary. I was going to write an autobiography, but I thought I'd write this instead.