A biography for Helen Baxendalehasn’t been written yet.
“I've never had a facial, ever.”
“Good love and romance aren't always what the hype cracks them up to be.”
“'Friends' and 'Cold Feet' seem like a lifetime ago. That whole period is like a weird, bizarre blip or a surreal dream.”
“I like to have some time off after doing a job and spend some time with my family.”
“I used to be terribly vain. I'd spend a lot of time pampering myself and applying make-up and hoping that I'd look nice.”
“With social media there seems to be controversy at everything.”
“When I'm filming I feel guilty about never seeing the children, but when I've not been working for six months I begin to think: 'Who am I?'”
“Valentine's Day isn't always as much fun as many of us would like.”
“If I'm on a beach I'm the one to find the ammonite, or in a field I'll find the four-leaf clover.”
“I just knew it would be good fun playing Agatha Christie.”
“Loads of people call me Bax. In my family I'm often called Hel, which isn't as nice.”
“I don't think I could cope with being David Schwimmer-ly famous.”
“Heights are a problem for me. I'm not a brave flier and I'd never jump out of a plane or do a bungee jump.”
“There are so many detective shows on television, aren't there? There's a real glut of grisly and violent ones, that aren't my cup of tea.”
“I don't know what I'm like. I'm better acting someone further away from myself.”
“I remember wearing old long johns, my dad's silk paisley dressing gown, chopped off at the waist, and lots of crucifixes - trying to look like Madonna. But I wasn't breaking any moulds, I was just trying to follow somebody else.”
“It's actually a privileged existence - I get to do some work, but I can walk down the street and have an absolutely normal life, rather than existing in some strange bubble.”
“It's surprisingly easy to get teenagers to watch subtitles.”
“Fame just didn't fit in with my life.”
“I don't know what drippy means, but it's not very nice. To be drippy. I don't feel like I drip much at all.”