Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

I have sleepless nights before press days.

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best.

He waited at her side, staring... hovering. She had the distinct impression this man wasn't used to being disobeyed. My, but he was an irritating sea captain.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

The bravest person in the Universe is not one with a Tyson fury's strength, but one that can invent a business idea during times of intense economy crises.

It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

There are a lot of times where people think I'm in things that I'm not in, because they think I'm Kumail Nanjiani.

There's someone out there who needs you. You must live your life so that person can find you.

I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed.

There is no need for fur - since there are compassionate alternatives.