Katherine Kelly

“I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funniest thing was when I told her what bonfire night is all about. It's quite dark when you start breaking it down.”

“In the evening, we either go to the cinema or stay in and get a takeaway - my favourites are Chinese or Indian.”

“I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.”

“I've already been married six times in my career as an actress - twice as Becky - so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!”

“I couldn't knock on people's door; if they answered the door and said, 'I don't want to speak to you,' I'd be like, 'Oh, OK then - I wouldn't either, to be honest.'”

“I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!”

“I initially went into 'Coronation Street' for three months. If they had said back then, 'Do you want to do it for six years?' I probably would have said, 'I don't think so.'”

“What is happening now to me in my career is amazing, so I dwell on the things that are happening rather than the things that aren't, because what's the point? It doesn't make them happen.”

“You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!”

“The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.”

“I know lots of people who work in the U.S. but don't live there.”

“I've got a green card, so I can work there any time, but I hate reading about actors going to America, because it's not like that anymore.”

“It's better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.”

“I'm delighted to join the cast of 'Field Of Blood: The Dead Hour.'”

“The next series of 'Mr Selfridge' has moved on five years. It's 1914 now, and the war is brewing. Halfway through the series, some of the Selfridges staff have to go off to fight, so they get women in to do the men's jobs.”

“I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.”

“It sounds so boring - and my brothers tease, 'Oh poor you, pulling pretend pints all day' - but it's very, very long hours, and you're knackered when you get home.”

“I'm always proud to be in something that's good.”

“Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way - it's the best.”

“There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.”