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" People think I'm clever, which is hilarious. I'm like, 'When did this happen? People used to think I couldn't string a sentence together.' "

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

" We still have an underclass in this country who are constantly ignored and vilified. "

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" If I were to appear in a programme like 'Sex and the City,' I'm sure I'd be cast as the downtrodden one staying at home and having seven children while the others jet-setted around the world. "

" We shouldn't still be asking, 'Have you got children? Why've you not got children? Ooh, you must have children!' Bog off, d'you know what I mean? "

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

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

" I'm not a fan of reality TV. "

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

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" 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. "

" You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric. "

" I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop. "