Joanne Whalley

I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be - an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.

The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered.

Kids have been a great clarifier - incredibly rewarding.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.