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" 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. "

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" When I was a little girl, there was this unbelievably cool female bus driver who'd work near us. I remember thinking I'd like to be her when I grew up. "

Maxine Peake

Cool

Work

" Often, when I am playing difficult roles, I have a problem sleeping because I can't leave the character behind. "

Maxine Peake

Character

I Am

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

" I remember when New Labour got in. I was at Salford Tech studying drama, and everyone was jumping up and down, and I was so upset, I went to a phone box and called my granddad. "

" 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 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

" For me, I'm still always that kid from Bolton. "

Maxine Peake

Kid

Always

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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 was told, 'Your career's made by what you don't do,' and that always stuck with me. I drive my agent mad! "

Maxine Peake

Mad

Always

" I went to Salford Tech. They did a two-year performing arts course. I went there singing and dancing - I had a terrible time. I turned up in green dungarees and German power boots. I was into prog rock at the time - Gong and Hawkwind - and I was clumping around. "

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

" 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 find these dramas fascinating - it's a world that many of us fortunately don't dip into. The legal system is all around us, but the majority of us don't have to go into a court, so it's a way into another world that is unusual. "

Maxine Peake

World

Find

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

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

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

Maxine Peake

Think

Dreams

" I think people expect me to dress a bit like Veronica from 'Shameless,' in vest tops and denim skirts. "

" 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

" It's great having time to just sit back and work through things in my mind. It helps put life into perspective. "

" I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school. "

" I get easily distracted and become a bit of a giddy giggler. I'm not good at taking myself seriously, and laughing at myself helps ease the pressure. "

" They always said to me that I needed to be more feminine. I think it's so wrong. Being boisterous doesn't mean you are not feminine. "

Maxine Peake

Said

Always

" 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!' "

" 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. "

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

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