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" It felt like a series of coincidences and luck that I ended up getting the part in 'Trainspotting,' but it's been an incredible journey since then. Every now and then, I sit and really think about it, and it blows my mind. I have to stop because I don't want my brain to implode. "

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" It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.' "

Kelly Macdonald

Girl

Cafe

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" People don't change very much, and the things life ends up being about don't change from generation to generation. Life is about love. And people's stories don't really change. Your environment changes dramatically, technology changes, but people don't change, in the way our minds work. "

" Most of my memories are the sound of rain on caravan roofs. "

" I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time. "

" A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's changed. It's much more vibrant, bohemian. But I'm 35 and I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow. "

" I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days. "

" I was interested in drama, but it never seemed like a real profession somehow. It was so outside my experience, and I probably wouldn't have had the confidence for drama school, though I did send off for an application form. "

" It can get a bit boring working on accents. "

" Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went to Grandma and Grandad's caravan near Aberfoyle. "

" L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of. "

" I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting. "

" I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project. "

Kelly Macdonald

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Project

" I'm so not a celebrity. "

Kelly Macdonald

Celebrity

" What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles. "

Kelly Macdonald

Brooding

Roles

" It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place. "

" I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero. "

" New Mexico was such a strange place; it was like filming on Mars. "

" I properly enjoy what I do, but I know it's not brain surgery. I don't take myself too seriously. "

" I'm no good at anecdotes. "

Kelly Macdonald

Anecdotes

Good

" I find just being on set embarrassing. Mortifying. And that's with all my clothes on. "

" I adore the fact that when I'm driving home from work, as soon as I hit my neighbourhood, I see people I know. "

" The people on programmes like 'Made in Chelsea' just want to be celebrities. It's so depressing. No proper actor has that as a goal. I'm striving for longevity in my career. "

" They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script. "

" Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don't always get things right. And also, you don't want to be a perfect parent... You need people to be human, and part of it is imperfection. "