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" 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. "

Maxine Peake

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" Every job still feels like the first time. "

Maxine Peake

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" I get easily distracted and become a bit of a giddy giggler. I'm not good at taking myself seriously, and laughing at myself helps ease the pressure. "

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

" My kind of work is very intense. The trouble with me is that I completely fling myself into it. I get giddy. I get terrible crushes on jobs. "

" As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive. "

" I went to the Old Bailey, and I met a judge, and I was petrified, but they were like, 'Oh, you're an actor, well, great.' It was a bit like we're cut from the same cloth a little bit. "

" 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. "

" I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why? "

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

Maxine Peake

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

" 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. "

" When I'm going to work, I often stop and wonder how I've got here. I don't mean literally, but just thinking back to when I first had the idea of being an actress, it seemed so unreal, so unlikely. People like me just didn't become actresses. Every new job I get comes as shock. It's almost as if I'm waiting to be found out. "

" 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. "

" I've always had pop-star crushes. I had a huge crush on Ian Brown. "

" I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please. "

" People think I'm clever, which is hilarious. I'm like, 'When did this happen? People used to think I couldn't string a sentence together.' "

Maxine Peake

Clever

People

" It's great having time to just sit back and work through things in my mind. It helps put life into perspective. "

" I remember when New Labour got in. I was at Salford Tech studying drama, and everyone was jumping up and down, and I was so upset, I went to a phone box and called my granddad. "

" When I'm not acting, I don't feel like an actor. "

Maxine Peake

Actor

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" I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego than playing the character truthfully. "

" I'm unusual in that I've worked more as I've got older. "

Maxine Peake

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" At drama school, I was told, 'Lay off the chips, or you'll never play Juliet.' Sometimes, in the stock room of the set of 'Dinnerladies,' I'd put away three or four Mars bars while waiting for a scene. Then, at 24, I lost five stone. "

" I'm a big techphobe. Someone else helps me run my Twitter; I wouldn't be able to trust myself. "

Maxine Peake

Run

Big

" 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. "

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

" Often, when I am playing difficult roles, I have a problem sleeping because I can't leave the character behind. "

Maxine Peake

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