I had an easy childhood in New Zealand. I never fell sick because I was always breathing in fresh spring air. Once I woke up in the middle of the night and saw a cow standing outside the front door.

When I was fifteen, we had to go into the country as part of the school’s outward bound program; as if New Zealand wasn’t country enough. We lived in tents, pooed in the long drop and didn’t wash!

Countries like New Zealand and Australia are all really paranoid about things like road safety because there are a lot more drivers. There’s so much space for long distance driving.

I get really frustrated driving in Singapore because it’s so dense here. But generally, I’m a safe driver; except when I was learning how to drive—I drove right through a roundabout.

When I was studying in university, I waited tables. Actually, I was not bad. What I was really bad at though, was opening the bottles in front of the guests. Even if you’re good at it, it’s a damn hard thing to do with flair in front of a table of eyes!

The one person I was really honored to work with was Krishen Jit. We were all being paid peanuts to do a very physical piece but because it was Krishen Jit, we decided to do it. It was myself, Beatrice Chia, Emma Yong and Mark Richmond.

When I worked with Glen Goei on The Importance of Being Earnest, I was really worried because we only had three weeks to work on it. Of course, the script we worked with was just amazing; it was Oscar Wilde after all, and Glen worked some magic in those three weeks.

Why is Little Britain so successful? It speaks to everyone; it’s like a buffet of things to ponder about and make fun of. Shows like these give us so much to relate to.

As an actor so much of the value is about you, not your boss or even office politics.

A lot of people in Singapore treat actors and what we do as any other job; it’s not. It’s both physical and emotional even if it’s comedy. I don’t want to discredit anyone else’s office job but one hour for us is like two hours for you.

Acting is great for people who have a short attention span because the projects and people we work with keep changing.

I still feel odd when my friends talk about climbing the corporate ladder and getting salary increments, and here I am prancing about as Lady Gaga on stage.

My greatest challenge as an actor is having to learn new languages. I’m shooting a movie right now. Some of it is in Hokkien and Mandarin. I’m so stressed it’s not funny.

I haven’t slowed down in a long time. My work just keeps me going and I kind of like that because I don’t know how to deal with myself when I have nothing to do. Oh wait, that’s when I go on holiday.

You know how some people want to move to directing? Not me, not really. I‘m happy acting.