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" I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years. "

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" A few things make a person stylish: honesty, imagination with a sprinkling of humour. I still keep an eye on trends, but I don't follow them any more. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Music is a huge inspiration to my style. I first got into it when I was 10: the new wave mod scene. "

" 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. "

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

" Everybody's in a situation; everybody has a story. It's about finding out why. "

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

" Pay in the acting world hasn't kept up with inflation. "

" I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school. "

" 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. "

" The 'Bolton News' is the best place for online comments. They say I'm an absolute idiot and a communist anarchist. I was never an anarchist; I was a communist! "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 graduated, I was my biggest ever: 15 stone, with a boyfriend - my first - of just 11 stone. I was 23 years old. It wasn't just affecting my career: it was a health issue as well. "

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

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

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