Maybe having to pretend to be in love with someone and then jump into bed with them breaks the ice very quickly; friendship follows fast.Collection: Friendship
I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.Collection: Anniversary
I've already been married six times in my career as an actress - twice as Becky - so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!Collection: Wedding
I love going to other people's weddings, but I have never desired a big white wedding for myself, and it has never been put on me as a pressure, an expectation.Collection: Wedding
So many people say you have to remember to grab hold of your bride or groom and spend time with them. I think if we had done a traditional wedding, we would have been doing it for everyone else, but this was about the two of us.Collection: Wedding
It's better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.
Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.
In the Depression, big musicals made a comeback.
I remember, when I was a teenager, 'Pride And Prejudice' came out. We hadn't had a period drama for ages, and were all glued to it, and for the next three years, Jane Austen series were being made.
I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funniest thing was when I told her what bonfire night is all about. It's quite dark when you start breaking it down.
I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!
I miss everyone on 'Coronation Street,' but I don't miss playing Becky.
The next series of 'Mr Selfridge' has moved on five years. It's 1914 now, and the war is brewing. Halfway through the series, some of the Selfridges staff have to go off to fight, so they get women in to do the men's jobs.
When I left 'Coronation Street,' I wondered if I could ever be lucky enough to work with such a unanimously wonderful company of good people - and I've just come to that good bunch again.
The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.
I can't imagine soaps will ever stop, because people will always watch as long as they have great stories and characters. But the soaps will have to keep evolving, won't they?
I'm 30; I don't have any commitments, and there are great parts out there that I want to play.
It sounds so boring - and my brothers tease, 'Oh poor you, pulling pretend pints all day' - but it's very, very long hours, and you're knackered when you get home.
My mum and dad's hobby was amateur dramatics.
One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.
Whenever there was a show like 'Calamity Jane,' me and my siblings would be plonked on stage in a costume because it was easier to have us in it rather than sort out babysitters.
If I had a penny for every time I've been asked if I'm going to work in America.
I've got a green card, so I can work there any time, but I hate reading about actors going to America, because it's not like that anymore.
I know lots of people who work in the U.S. but don't live there.
I'm delighted to join the cast of 'Field Of Blood: The Dead Hour.'
I'm really looking forward to filming in Glasgow with a top-class cast and crew.
I'm quite happy being single.
As for getting married, I don't have strong feelings, really - I can take or leave it.
I'm a good old Yorkshire girl in that I don't like to talk about things that are on tick. As my nana always said, 'Until you've bought it, it's not yours,' so until it's signed on the dotted line, I don't like to talk about it.
I've never been a person to wish for stuff - I just take it as it comes.
What is happening now to me in my career is amazing, so I dwell on the things that are happening rather than the things that aren't, because what's the point? It doesn't make them happen.
It's been great for me to play a real baddie.
When I read the diary of former 'Daily Mirror' editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.
All I know is Andrew Davies is an amazing writer; I adore the scripts. I think that Jeremy Piven is outstanding.
There are lots of people in my life I just don't get the chance to see as much as I would like.
I used to work at a pub called The Miner's Rest, and the landlord, Dennis, taught me how to pour a proper pint - it's the type of place where the regulars would send their drinks back if they weren't right.
I initially went into 'Coronation Street' for three months. If they had said back then, 'Do you want to do it for six years?' I probably would have said, 'I don't think so.'
The novelty of corsets and dresses and hats very soon wears off.
I would always consider going back to 'Coronation Street.'
It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'
I'm a very separate person to my job.
Even at home, I don't have pictures on the wall of jobs I've done.
Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.
My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'
I've had a fantastic time at 'Coronation Street,' and I'm chuffed at the reaction to Becky. It's been this lovely redemption story, and I think that's what the viewers have enjoyed about it.
I take one day at a time. I've always been like that.
I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.
I was excited when I first got the call, when I heard BBC Four were making a biography and they were interested in me being a part of it.
I've sort of overlapped every job that I've done, really.
I just take every script as it comes along and take it from there.