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" I care about my work, but I don't care about getting it wrong. The more you do, the more you realise nobody's going to die. "

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" I went to Salford Tech. They did a two-year performing arts course. I went there singing and dancing - I had a terrible time. I turned up in green dungarees and German power boots. I was into prog rock at the time - Gong and Hawkwind - and I was clumping around. "

" You want to go to your deathbed saying, 'I didn't sell out.' But it's a tough business to keep to what you believe in and get through and do well. "

" What's wrong with wanting the best for everybody? "

" I love hoovering. People go to therapists; I've got a Hoover. "

" Sometimes the darker the work, the more fun you can have. "

" I don't really engage with that world of technology, which might be to my detriment. "

" It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors. "

" You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that. "

" We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first. "

" We need a wider sense of community because we're all on the same planet. "

" I find these dramas fascinating - it's a world that many of us fortunately don't dip into. The legal system is all around us, but the majority of us don't have to go into a court, so it's a way into another world that is unusual. "

" I'm not a fan of reality TV. "

" I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre. "

" I know I sometimes come across as being quite dismissive about acting. But I'm not. It's like people reading their diaries in public. I don't want to talk about how I create characters. I find it self-indulgent. "

" I do, in a strange way, care deeply what people think. "

" I joined the Communist Party when I was 18. When I was 10, there was the miners' strike, and the Cold War was going on; it was quite a potent time to get involved in politics. I got involved through my grandfather, who was a member. "

" In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop. "

" For me, politics is about passion. It doesn't matter what you know; it's your actions that count. I meet people who say they're socialists, and that's not what they carry out in their everyday life. "

" Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be. "

" People will always respond to high-class drama. "

" I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.' "

" I'm always an advocate of 'acting is reacting,' which can be difficult. "

" Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you. "

" The first posh meal out I had was on my 10th birthday. "

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" I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it. "

" I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class. "

" My favourite outfit is a giant bunny suit. I wore it in a music video for 'Are You One?' by the Chanteuse & the Crippled Claw and got to keep it. "

" I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs, sea shanties, and English folklore. "