A biography for Lee Evanshasn’t been written yet.
“My dad's Welsh and my mum's Irish, and they're always rowing. If I went in and said that I'd been working with Cameron Diaz, my dad would say, 'He's gone a bit big-time, hasn't he mum?'”
“We lived in the top-floor council flat, the same level as the flyovers going past the window. I loved it. I used to imagine who the people were, what they were doing, what their lives were like.”
“When I was a kid I sort of sat in a darkened room a lot of the time. I was very lonely and I spent a lot of time on me own and I've got a bit of a mad imagination.”
“I don't want anyone to dislike me.”
“I don't want to be one of them old codgers, 'Oh yes, I went to Australia for the Comedy Festival once... I did this Disney film' and the grandkids saying 'Naaah, you never.'”
“My dad is from Rhyl and my grandfather is from Pontypridd. They were all miners, the Evans men, they're all short and red-cheeked, and they can sing like birds.”
“I've always bounced well off someone who is a more dominant figure.”
“I'm never going to be as good as Richard Curtis or Ben Elton, but I'm willing to keep learning.”
“I have nightmares constantly.”
“To be a fellow of Cardiff University is just amazing. I went down there and I had to give a speech in front of all these very artistic drama students, and it gets to you, it's wonderful.”
“I'm always a bit nervous about anything. I don't know why.”
“Me and the missus have come a long way since our first flat in Southend. When I first came to London I looked in the Standard for a job.”
“My family is the most important thing in my life but my wife knows if you take away my creativity I'm dead.”
“There should be room for everything in the West End, be that a blockbuster musical or a good straight play. I would like to see what you get on Broadway - where revenue from theatre is funnelled to new productions and new writers - happen over here.”
“My imagination is working stuff all the time. I also talk to myself now and again, which is the first sign of therapy.”
“I think pain becomes your friend. And for me it forces me to push on to the next thing, the better thing, to work out why something hasn't worked.”
“The Magic Roundabout' has become something of a national treasure.”
“I consider myself insignificant, nowhere near as good as my peers are.”
“I suppose there's a mad side to me.”
“I see the stage as one place, where you sing, dance, move. It doesn't matter.”