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" 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. "

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

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

" I am an actor. I love acting, and I absolutely love what I do, but I don't want it to be every waking hour. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play. "

" When we were doing 'Criminal Justice,' they were filming 'Clash of the Titans' nearby and we kept nicking off to their catering tent and going, 'Look what they've got!' "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" Food is important in working out a character. How she eats is a window into her temperament. If I think she likes her food, I'll put on a few pounds, or lose a few if she lives on her nerves. "

" After my mum and dad got divorced, I was entitled to free school dinners, but my mum said, 'Under no circumstances,' because she was proud. "

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

" For me, politics is about passion. It doesn't matter what you know; it's your actions that count. I meet people who say they're socialists, and that's not what they carry out in their everyday life. "

" Sometimes the darker the work, the more fun you can have. "

" 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 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. "

" When I was growing up, because I was a bit overweight and boyish, I thought I wasn't attractive to the opposite sex, but I have since met lads from my school who said I just seemed unapproachable. "

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

" I've always fancied being a bit of warrior, on a horse swinging a sword around, sorting out the men... Oh yes, that sounds lovely. "

" 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. "

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

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

" They always said to me that I needed to be more feminine. I think it's so wrong. Being boisterous doesn't mean you are not feminine. "

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

" 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. "