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" 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. "

Maxine Peake

Mind

Doing

Friends

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" When I'm not acting, I don't feel like an actor. "

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" When I graduated, I was my biggest ever: 15 stone, with a boyfriend - my first - of just 11 stone. I was 23 years old. It wasn't just affecting my career: it was a health issue as well. "

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

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

" The films, the music, the telly that I like is always a little bit more on the margins. "

Maxine Peake

Always

Little

" I was a tomboy. I had a pudding-bowl haircut; I wore big Doc Martens and dungarees. "

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

" 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. "

Maxine Peake

Amazing

Dressed

" 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. "

" 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. "

Maxine Peake

Think

Blue

" As I've got older, I've got slightly more fussy. You've got less time; you need to use it wisely. "

" 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? "

" I think, as a woman, you've got to make so many sacrifices. "

" 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. "

Maxine Peake

I Am

Acting

" The first posh meal out I had was on my 10th birthday. "

" 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 take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first. "

" 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! "

" I'm a big techphobe. Someone else helps me run my Twitter; I wouldn't be able to trust myself. "

Maxine Peake

Run

Big

" Music is a huge inspiration to my style. I first got into it when I was 10: the new wave mod scene. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When I'm going to work, I often stop and wonder how I've got here. I don't mean literally, but just thinking back to when I first had the idea of being an actress, it seemed so unreal, so unlikely. People like me just didn't become actresses. Every new job I get comes as shock. It's almost as if I'm waiting to be found out. "

" I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs, sea shanties, and English folklore. "

" 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. "

" Every job still feels like the first time. "

Maxine Peake

Time

Job

" I do, in a strange way, care deeply what people think. "