I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from us. Not even our parents.

It should be fun, working out should be fun.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

You're never a failure until you fail to get up.

I'm a person who loves people. It's all about the vibe of the environment I'm working in.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.

When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.