Faye Marsay

“Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.”

“Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.”

“Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'”

“It's part of the magic of 'Game of Thrones,' all the secrets.”

“I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you've moved on from the scene, that's it: it's going in the telly and there's nowt you can do about it! It's really scary.”

“I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.”

“I just like playing people.”

“I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!”

“We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'”

“My feet are always on the ground. My family and friends make sure I stay there.”

“I've been lucky enough to sort of go over different mediums, different vibes and genres.”

“My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.”

“I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.”

“I think, with 'Pride,' I always knew that was something amazing because of the people who were in it and the story and the way it was written and who was directing. Anyone in that cast knew it was special.”

“There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.”

“Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and you like what you like. But I felt like with 'Pride,' certainly when it was released in America, there were certain things that went on with the marketing where I though we're pandering to whatever the vibe is of that area.”

“I never expected that I'd be doing as many jobs as I did. I know everybody says that, but I thought I'd be sat in my pants waiting for someone to ring me. Then maybe within five years I might get something.”

“I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.”

“It's terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.”

“I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.”