I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be in a soap. Working with Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadd….

Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom lin….

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors..

I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once that I wanted to be a vet because one of the teachers ….

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate ….

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls..

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits..

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again..

Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court..

I took my children to see 'Son of Rambow,' about two boys who make a home movie with a video camera. When you have children, culturally you become in….

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the….

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just h….

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her..

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me..