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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

I like audiences and performing and, you know... applause!

I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.

I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works. Judd Apatow is fantastic at it. But as an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written.

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

I love to entertain an audience.

I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.