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" I love 'Splash!' and 'Take Me Out.' Not that I'd ever do 'Splash!' It's the parading on British TV in a swimming costume I couldn't handle. "

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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. "

" I think, as a woman, you've got to make so many sacrifices. "

" I think you can tell a lot by someone's footwear - cowboy boots would put me off, as would a man in Ugg boots or Crocs. "

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

" If I feel like if there's a few too many people on that path with me, then I want to jump off and find another one. "

" 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. "

" I must admit I don't usually buy a daily paper, although I will get one if there's an interview I want to read. "

" If I were to appear in a programme like 'Sex and the City,' I'm sure I'd be cast as the downtrodden one staying at home and having seven children while the others jet-setted around the world. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

" 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 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 was a tomboy. I had a pudding-bowl haircut; I wore big Doc Martens and dungarees. "

" The women I play don't sit in the corner eating lettuce leaves and talking about what designer shoes they have. "

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

" 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. "