Once you've sat in a room annoying Derek Jacobi while he's trying to do his crossword, you're prepped for working with the greats.
The people I've met who are divorce lawyers, there's a sense of them having to look reassuringly expensive.
When I'm not working, as a family we are obsessed with jumping off rocks into the sea and doing dangerous things.
I was always about working. I like working. I don't like being unemployed. I love acting.
I can't tell you the excitement to be in a new TV series or a play you've got to read for. That's the best.
My two great fears are either not working or working on something that means you can't do something else you really want.
When you're both actors, it is feast or famine financially and emotionally in your marriage.
It can be tough to turn things down, but as an actor, being in demand is a nice problem to have.
It always makes me laugh to think that I get to sit around and chat with people like Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi and get paid for it.
My dad always jokes that if I ever write an autobiography, which I'm not going to, it'll be called 'It's Tough in the Middle.'
My dad always jokes that if I ever write an autobiography, which I'm not going to, it'll be called 'It's Tough in the Middle.'
It can be tough to turn things down, but as an actor, being in demand is a nice problem to have.
My two great fears are either not working or working on something that means you can't do something else you really want.
In this industry, people like to look at different faces on their screens - even I do.
Yes, I go a little bit crazy when I'm not working, which is an issue for me. My background is you go to work; that's what you do.
You just have to look at me to know what I am feeling. So I would be a useless policewoman or spy.
If you could make telly as good as radio, it would be amazing - audio can do things so easily that television can't.
I am very good at keeping secrets, except when I am drunk, when I will tell you absolutely anything.