Actress Quotes

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

I would love to go back as Leela in this new series.

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.

When people feel good, they look good.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

I think it's probably best to work out in the morning to get it out of the way. My ultimate top tip is to drag yourself, even if you have to roll yourself out of your bed and in to a sit-up - it's really not that bad once you start.

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

I love clothes but it's a struggle for me to get out of jeans and a baggy jumper.

I don't like seeing celebs looking too skinny, I love it when they look healthy and comfortable in their bodies and embrace their curves.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I've learned a lot.

I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.

I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.

I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again?

When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.