Joanna Page

“I'm really enjoying playing mothers, it just feels a bit more grown-up.”

“To be honest for me I just love acting.”

“I've always believed in a woman's right to choose. If you're bringing a baby into the world and there are reasons why you couldn't cope, or know that you wouldn't hugely love it, then it should be your choice not to go through with it.”

“People keep saying 'household name' and things like that to me. I'm just really happy that I can find work.”

“It really irritates me how I get sent a script and it's set in London and if I say, 'Can I do it in my own accent?' it's as if somebody has just said 'Bomb.' They say, 'It's fine for you to have any regional accent apart from Welsh.' And I think, 'Oh my God, that's like racism!'”

“I home-schooled for about two weeks, then I said we're not doing this any more.”

“I see myself as down to earth, quite simple, tomboyish.”

“My mother-in-law trained as a nurse in a 1960s gynae ward.”

“Careers, when they take off, can take your mind off babies temporarily, but I think it always comes back to when the time is right.”

“I can't stand people who always have to be right.”

“I love Amy Pond. I think Karen Gillan is brilliant.”

“Stacey was such an amazing part, it put me on the map and it means I can pick and choose how I want to live my life and what projects I do. I'm so grateful for this part. It is a joy!”

“I'm pretty stubborn and I can flare up quite easily.”

“I've been incredibly lucky in that I've been brought up by fab parents. They always said, 'Hold your head up, have confidence and believe in yourself.' As long as I can make them proud, and my husband proud, I really couldn't care less about anything else.”

“I remember being in a play called 'The Bumbles of Mumbles.' I wore a gold costume and I had a gold cone on my head. I came on stage and the lights were on, and I just thought, 'This is what I want to do with my life.'”

“When I was 18 and went to RADA in London, my weekends calmed down a lot. I lived in halls in Gower Street and spent three hours on the phone to my parents every night, crying because I missed home so much.”

“Mumbles and the Gower have the most beautiful beaches.”

“Lily Pickering, who plays my daughter on 'The Syndicate,' was just utterly, utterly adorable.”

“I need privacy when I'm on holiday.”

“Every day people come up to me and say lovely things, which always puts a smile on my face.”