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" In the adverts, I look like I do because 150 people have spent seven hours making me look dazzling. That's not me at all. "

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" I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset. "

" I went on two holidays as a child. It wasn't what people did where I grew up. "

" When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them. "

" It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life. "

" I'm a total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper. "

" When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden. "

" I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself. "

" There are lots of actors who are posh and stick with that, and there are lots of actors who are cockney, and that's what they do. That's fine, but I don't think that could be said about me. "

" Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you. "

" Botox and other fillers make everybody look the same, with the big cheekbones where they fill you up. It's much cheaper to have a fringe - it takes years off everybody. "

" I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do. "

" 'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values. "

" Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can't control. "

" There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines. "

" If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films. "

" There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible. "

" My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it. "

" I've nothing against stay-at-home mums, but I love going to work, I love what I do and I wouldn't want to start resenting my home life if I was staying home 365 days a year. "

" It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff. "

" Yes, I'm anal. I am just really organised. "

" If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas. "

" I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams. "

" There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way. "

" Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three. "

" Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life. "

" I don't punish myself. Life's too short. "

" I was never one of those teenagers who sang into their hairbrush. "

" Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes. "

" My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live. "

" Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad. "