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" My big advert was for ketchup. I come home from school, cook my brother and sister their dinner, ride my bike in the garden. Remember that one? People cried at that advert. It won awards. I was 12. "

Russell Tovey

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Russell Tovey

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" When I left 'Being Human,' that was painful because the show was going on without me. But with 'Him & Her,' we finished on such a high together that if it is the end, it couldn't have stopped at a better time. But I hope with 'Him & Her' that we'll get another crack of the whip: that the writer might change his mind and write some more. "

" I've been so involved with TV shows, I've been unavailable for films, which is my dream. "

" I'm slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing... I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I'd love to play one. "

" I'm not a controversial person. I'm not trying to polarise people. "

" I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I'd become some tapdancing freak without qualifications. And he was right in a way. I'm glad I didn't go. That might have changed. "

" I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here. "

" My mum used to think it was the pill that made you gay. There was too much estrogen in the water, and people started taking the pill in the '60s, and it made everybody gay. "

" I'd love the career of Julie Walters. As a man. "

" I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose. "

" If I hadn't gone into acting, then I would have perhaps become an animator. "

" I just live in the moment. Or try to. "

" I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official. "

" I think a part of me romantically thinks it would be amazing to learn to dance or ice skate, but in reality, I don't think it would be beneficial to my career. "

" I loved 'Star Wars'. I had the toys. "

" Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, 'Well, that's out there now...' Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn't very well known. "

Russell Tovey

Well

Thought

" When I was younger, I had terrible skin... my mother has terrible skin. Male-pattern hair loss is starting to come in... my dad is bald. It's so unfair; my brother's tall, has perfect skin, great hair, but I'm like the runt. "

" Brits are cool at the moment. We've taken over the world, what with 'Game of Thrones', 'Downton Abbey', One Direction... to be British is to be fashionable. "

" I've always put out positivity, and I've always been very open and proud throughout my whole career, and at no point have I ever tried to cause controversy or just say something that wasn't totally in support of everyone in the community. "

" When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past. "

" I was a hairdresser's assistant. I used to get 20p tips for washing an old woman's hair. I used to get there at 8 A.M., leave at 6 P.M. and get £10. "

" Being an uncle brings me utter joy. "

" I think it's quite limiting to do a soap. "

" I get letters and messages on Twitter saying I've become a bit of a role model, which is wonderful. "

" Alan Bennett is a starmaker; he's the Simon Cowell of the theatre world! He's a beautiful, beautiful man: completely humble and so accessible. "

" I never felt I was attractive to women. I felt I was attractive to men when I was growing up. And even now, if a woman fancies me, I find that a bit alienating. "

" I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over. "