Top 55 Craig Revel Horwood Quotes

All my ex-boyfriends, bar one, are my best friends.

I like laying by the pool but I do tend to get a bit bored after a couple of days chilling out.

Anything people say about me I don’t care. I really don’t care. You read so much terrible stuff about yourself it sort of just ends up washing over.

I play the Wicked Queen in ‘Snow White.’ I’m not typecast. It’s terrible. I should be Prince Charming.

With ‘The X Factor’ I think the audiences have lost faith and trust in it so that’s its problem. You want to be watching something real and dynamic and something you can trust and believe in.

Friendly Fires were dull, and I wouldn’t really sit down and listen to Hot Chip.

The colour of someone’s skin doesn’t explain anything.

I always say the most important thing is the ability to act, then sing, then dance – in that order.

I love getting in the kitchen because I don’t get the chance when I’m staying in hotels and on the road.

My wife Jane left me for another man. Then I fell in love with a bloke. I have been gay ever since.

The BBC don’t pay what they pay in America or on ITV.

My advice gets misconstrued as being mean.

Freddie Mercury made a lot of sense to me even though I didn’t understand the lyrics.

For personality, you’re not going to get better than Ricky Groves. He really goes for it.

Sports men and women need hip replacements. It was all those years of classical ballet and forcing turn-outs. It can be quite detrimental to your body.

I’m a lovely person, considerate and loving.

I chose when I was 30 to change my life entirely and become a director and sit in the dark and that’s what I love doing.

When you take on an acting or dancing role, you have to trust your director, and in some ways there is freedom in relinquishing control.

I love my sporty but classic brown leather Picard satchel.

My signature dish is seafood lasagne – massive king prawns, smoked haddock, cod and a white sauce.

Actors are very emotional, whereas sports people are used to criticism.

I’m a workaholic.

I was quite chubby, so when I started dancing professionally I had to work hard to stay slim.

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.

But ‘Strictly’ is meant to showcase people with talents in acting, singing, sports, journalism… not fame-seekers with no discernible talent.

I met Prince Harry at Westminster and I want him to be my new boyfriend, but unfortunately I don’t think it is going to happen.

Lots of celebrities have had some sort of dance training, especially actors or singers – they have to have some movement skill and be trained physically.

I go through the same trials and tribulations as anyone else.

Sometimes people need to think of themselves as lions or tigers. Even panthers.

I grew up with ‘Chess’ and the music from the show.

I’m tongue in cheek, but very much to the point.

I like getting blotto at parties but I also like being sober and I hate the hangover.

My ears are too big.

Street dance resonates for teenagers. It’s inclusive and brings in different audiences.

If I have to do my tax online, the government should pay for my Internet hook-up, darling.

The problem is most people in the world can’t take criticism.

I like fresh, crisp, cool, plain white cotton sheets from Calvin Klein.

As a dancer, you go from one show to the next, and you never know where your next pound is coming from, and I think that’s what makes me say yes to so many things, because there’s always a fear that you won’t have a job.

I danced with Courtney Act, which was absolutely fantastic.

How many dancers in their life get a job that will last 15 years? Not many.

The Thorn Birds’ by Colleen McCullough. I took it on a holiday to Greece and just fell in love with it.

I like stuff like Joy Division and Verdi, and then some naff stuff.

People tend to think when you’re at the top, you need bashing down. It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.

If I was to pretend my father didn’t exist and I didn’t have anything to remember him by, then it wouldn’t be healthy.

Strictly’ has evolved – there are such beautiful stories within each dance. We’re not doing a ballroom and Latin competition, it’s an entertainment show.

I was bullied mercilessly through school for my weight problem.

Villains are far more interesting to play than nice people.

I’d adopt an older child, not a baby.

My relationship with my dad was complex, especially when I came out. The years of verbal abuse, all of it drink-fuelled, were difficult. Later, though, he came to see me on stage in ‘La Cage aux Folles’ – one of his favourite shows – and loved it. Theatre won him over and he accepted me in the end.

When I was opening my first bank account, the person at the counter thought I was a girl.

Celebrity is worthless and useless, it takes away your privacy.

I’m on Grindr, Scruff, Match.com. That’s the way everyone meets these days, three of my friends have got married after meeting on Grindr.

Ricky Whittle is fabulous.

X Factor’ creates a Christmas single that puts money in other people’s pockets. Whereas ‘Strictly”s not out to do that, at all. That’s why I stand up for it – it isn’t car-crash television.

It’s important to me that people don’t go spouting off about anything in your life.