My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.

Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being audit…