I'm not a person of religion, but if I had to have a God, it would be Shakespeare. He seems to have understood us all, understood that we fall in love, we fall out of love, we get jealous, we get angry, we get ambitious, we get cruel, but he never judges us.

ACTOR IAN MCKELLEN

Think about tonight like the Oscars, but with diversity. It is so diverse that Donald Trump has threatened to build a wall around this theatre.

TONY AWARDS HOST JAMES CORDEN at the Broadway show that featured 14 nominees of colour

You can be consumed by 'Oh, someone wrote something about me', but you have to remember it's 10 seconds out of someone's day, if that.

ACTOR LIAM HEMSWORTH on media attention to his rekindled romance with singer Miley Cyrus