Jonathan Bailey

Actor

1988-04-25

Quotes by Jonathan Bailey

• The thing with Sondheim is that people sometimes say he's the only thing that matters, and then you end up embalming him, when the fact is he just writes the best and most accessible music.

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• Well, I feel like the campy, plush spectacle of the Bridgerton' world is only going to get more pronounced in the best way possible.

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• There have been amazing performances by straight people playing gay and by gay people playing straight.

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• That's a testament to Shondaland who cast everyone off self-tapes. That creative instinct that they work through and they encourage everyone to go on is really empowering.

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• No, I'm alright for adventure. I will up the Thames in one of those Jacuzzi dingys.

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• The structure of theatre is always: turn up, do the job, be present and be kind, and work hard.

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• My toothbrush is analogue all the way. There's a supersonic Oral-B in the cabinet but I like an old-fashioned DIY to get a full clean. Firm bristles.

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• I'd be quite good at yo-yos, differentiating between them. The X-Brain, the Viper, the Tornado: I was into them at school. They're due a resurgence.

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• One of my sisters was doing dance, and I'd watch from the back of the classroom in my trainers. Slowly, I started integrating myself into the fraught south Oxford ballet culture.

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• I remember seeing Oliver!' when I was six and having vertigo in the theatre - I experience that even when I go to theatres now.

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• I think the idea of signing on to a sort of very commercial show and a show that is as expansive as this, that potentially could run and run, was something that I'd been wary of before, but reading Bridgerton,' it was a no brainer.

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