Alex Kingston

“'Doctor Who' is really challenging and fulfilling on so many levels.”

“I live a very boring life.”

“I have a computer and an iPad, but I have no interest in Twitter.”

“Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.”

“To be honest, 'Doctor Who' fans are a mixture of crazies plus solid citizens, but they're relentless.”

“I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.”

“The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.”

“Cleopatra is one of the roles that I would love to do!”

“I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.”

“The cast of 'ER' is very close, and everyone has treated me so well.”

“Interviews usually upset me in one way or another.”

“I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.”

“I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.”

“In England, there just isn't that fascism of beauty and physicality or whatever. You don't have to look like a gym bunny, all buffed up and a size two. You're not judged the way you are in the States.”

“I lead a very quiet life and never court publicity. I don't go to a restaurant and let slip I'm leaving by the back door, like some celebrities.”

“One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.”

“For premieres, you get designers offering to dress you for the evening, which is nice.”

“I'm actually very vulnerable and sensitive.”

“My daughter was born in the States, and she went into the educational system here.”

“Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.”