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" I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work. "

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

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" Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that. "

" I actually used to compete at show-jumping when I was a young'un. "

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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. "

" I used to think the store detective had followed me all the way home and would knock on the door and go, 'Hello, is this your daughter? She's got three blue lipsticks and a moisturiser from Boots in her bag.' We just used to nick crap. Not even stuff we wanted. "

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" The films, the music, the telly that I like is always a little bit more on the margins. "

" I get angry about the way women are forced and bullied into what the male ideal is. "

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" I was told, 'Your career's made by what you don't do,' and that always stuck with me. I drive my agent mad! "

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

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" 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. "

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