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" If I dress up, I try to wear something that's still a bit me, but then I regret it when I see that everyone else has dressed up more and looks amazing. "

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

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

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

" I'm a big comfort eater, so if I'm feeling sorry for myself, I'll just stuff my face. "

" I'm very independent, probably quite selfish, and like being able to disappear at the drop of a hat without having to explain myself - most men would find that a pain, wouldn't they? "

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" I was told, 'Your career's made by what you don't do,' and that always stuck with me. I drive my agent mad! "

" Cooking, you can keep. I've not the slightest interest in it. "

" 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 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. "

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" I'm not a fan of reality TV. "

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" It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors. "

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

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" 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! "

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