Maurice Flanagan

Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.

There's no such thing as low-cost fuels.

From the beginning, I got all Emirates cabin crew applicants psychometrically tested. Those who didn't want to be nice to others got rejected.

The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.