You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

I borrowed my friends car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.

I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.