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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

" Every job still feels like the first time. "

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

" 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. "

" We shouldn't still be asking, 'Have you got children? Why've you not got children? Ooh, you must have children!' Bog off, d'you know what I mean? "

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

" For me, I'm still always that kid from Bolton. "

" I was a tomboy. In my clubbing days, my friend Lucy Davies-Hunt - half-Iranian, looked like Yasmin Le Bon - could wear catsuits, while I was the one in the sweatshirt, jeans, and Fila boots. "

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

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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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