I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street..

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated..

Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people..

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed..

The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and….

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage..

I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative..

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful..

One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you….

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people..

My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily.….

Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place..

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school..

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film..

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine..

When I got pregnant with my first child I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: "I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when….

I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar..

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them..

I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then ….

I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work..

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia..