If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.