Quotes About Entertainment

Hats off to Julian and Johnny, the producers, for sticking to their guns with the five-season story arc of 'Merlin'. It would have been too easy to give in to demand and stretch the show on beyond their original plan because of its incredible success.

Our grandparents' generation prefers to watch film on TV rather than going to the theatre because of the simple reason that they are really old. Watching a film for, say, two hours at a stretch is difficult for them.

Was I a Jackie Chan-level martial arts master? Absolutely not! Not by any stretch of the imagination. I'm an actor. I'm a performer.

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

I personally love working for finite series as it's important to convey that stories need not be stretched; they can get over in a year and still be loved by audiences.

We have very strict rules about TV and film in my house.

I grew up in a pretty strict household in the sense that we just didn't have cable, so I wasn't familiar with what stand-up comedy was. I remember telling my friends that I thought stand-up comedy was like the thing that happened before the episode of 'Seinfeld.'

Despite strict instructions from my mother not to step out of the house, I cycled all the way to Vellore to watch 'Thevar Magan.' In fact, I grew up watching classic films such as 'Naayakan,' 'Thaalapathi' and 'En Bommukutty Ammavukku.'

In days to come I would love to doing some more reality shows but the saas-bahu type daily soaps are a strict no for me as I hate serials based on kitchen politics.

I would go into the Jungle if I wasn't hosting it or I'd like to do 'MasterChef.' But 'Strictly?' God, no!

I've come to realise that being on 'Strictly' is like being in another theatre company and performing a live production.

I once called EastEnders' Patsy Palmer 'a scrubber in a Puffa jacket who cries all the time' on 'Strictly.' She said I wasn't actually a dancer. That wasn't my finest moment.

We always have a really bad dancer on 'Strictly,' like Kate Garraway or Fiona Phillips, and that's great, and we love it, but when it comes to the quarters and semis, you want the best dancers left in.

We have an older following with 'Hairy Bikers,' but 'Strictly' crosses all generations.

I was offered 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I turned it down because that celebrity world is not what I'm into.

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.

I think a lot of people are getting bored of audition-based shows, along the lines of 'Strictly Come Dancing' or 'The X-Factor'. I know I am. But 'Dragons' Den' will have a longer shelf-life than all of them because it's fundamentally real in a way that other shows aren't.

People have asked Si if he would ever do 'Strictly,' I don't think he would, it's just not his thing really.

You don't realise until you do 'Strictly' how obsessed people are.

One of the reasons I said yes to doing 'Strictly' was because it is so far removed from what I do for a living ordinarily.

2018 has been such a fantastic year for me: working on some hard-hitting documentaries, as well as 'Strictly,' has been a real treat.

I had three brilliant years on 'The X Factor,' and it was one of the best jobs I've ever had. 'Strictly' is completely different; it's a whole different show - I'm dancing. It's not presenting. But this is one of the best things I've done - ever.

Our stuff is made strictly for fun. We're not out to give a message.