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

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" 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. "

" I love hoovering. People go to therapists; I've got a Hoover. "

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

" Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be. "

" People will always respond to high-class drama. "

" I'm quite cautious in most areas of my life, but I'm always happy to gamble when it comes to acting. I'm not frightened of falling on my face. "

" Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific box. "

" My kind of work is very intense. The trouble with me is that I completely fling myself into it. I get giddy. I get terrible crushes on jobs. "

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

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

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

" What's wrong with wanting the best for everybody? "

" 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. "

" I love 'Splash!' and 'Take Me Out.' Not that I'd ever do 'Splash!' It's the parading on British TV in a swimming costume I couldn't handle. "

" Sometimes it feels like the feminist movement never happened. "

" What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female. "

" I have recurring dreams about losing my temper, which become quite violent. I dread to think what that says about me. "

" Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you. "

" When I was growing up, because I was a bit overweight and boyish, I thought I wasn't attractive to the opposite sex, but I have since met lads from my school who said I just seemed unapproachable. "

" I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please. "

" When we were doing 'Criminal Justice,' they were filming 'Clash of the Titans' nearby and we kept nicking off to their catering tent and going, 'Look what they've got!' "

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

" I was a tomboy. In my clubbing days, my friend Lucy Davies-Hunt - half-Iranian, looked like Yasmin Le Bon - could wear catsuits, while I was the one in the sweatshirt, jeans, and Fila boots. "

" As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive. "

" At drama school, I was told, 'Lay off the chips, or you'll never play Juliet.' Sometimes, in the stock room of the set of 'Dinnerladies,' I'd put away three or four Mars bars while waiting for a scene. Then, at 24, I lost five stone. "

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

" I'm always an advocate of 'acting is reacting,' which can be difficult. "

" I think you can tell a lot by someone's footwear - cowboy boots would put me off, as would a man in Ugg boots or Crocs. "