A biography for Kathy Burkehasn’t been written yet.
“I went through moody broody... well, I met one person and I thought 'if I am going to have a child with anybody it is going to be with this guy. Anyway it didn't happen because he had a girlfriend and I tried not to sleep with people if they had girlfriends.”
“It's very nice to be greeted in the street and all that, but I actually don't care what other people think of me.”
“I thought, 'Could I ever call myself ugly as a character?' And it was like, 'Yeah, I'd love to be able to say stuff like that.'”
“I wanted to write a semi-autobiographical piece that was uplifting and heart-warming.”
“Edinburgh is good craic. A romantic and beautiful city, it's one those places that makes me smile when I think about it - there are other places I would never dare go back to, but Edinburgh is very special.”
“I love stay-at-home dads. I think that is so brilliant. If I knew in my 20s you could... meet someone and have kids and he would be happy to be the one the bringing up the children maybe I would have done it.”
“I've got one of those really big tellies.”
“I'd probably go Green because I am really worried about climate change and the planet.”
“Imagine being the kids that don't get the job - you're just not beautiful enough I'm afraid, my darling, now off you pop and be riddled with insecurities for the rest of your life.”
“I had mates who lived in tower blocks and I always hated seeing them, because of the lifts, y'know? My God, so scary.”
“Having been a fan of Frantic Assembly for many years I'm really looking forward to working with them as a co-director as it's something I've not done before.”
“I had this laddish way about me, with my deep voice and telling jokes all the time; I was Burkey, the little fella in a skirt.”
“I didn't actually start having sex until I was 23.”
“What's important to me is that the ego hasn't taken over.”
“I find acting so tiring!”
“I didn't want to go anywhere because I hated being a woman during my menopause. I was like 'why am I a woman?' I couldn't bear it.”
“Not having a mum was my thing. It came with a sort of fame. Other kids couldn't get their head around that. But looking back now, I'm quite proud about how I managed myself. I didn't end up sniffing glue or running away. I just got on with things.”
“It bloody annoys me when people forget that we're actors. Just because we tend to appear in things with our own accents, saying dialogue that comes naturally to us, people think we're just being ourselves.”
“I'm quite a solitary person. I like being on my own.”
“I was losing the buzz of going on stage - and getting a bit tired.”