| "This industry is all about keeping going and hopefully
luck will find its way to you." |
| "Count your blessings, not your money." |
| "My mum was always telling me to stop showing off. I
could do two impressions: Margaret Thatcher and Ruth Madoc from Hi-de-hi" |
| "Tanya wears a lot of eye make-up. It's like a mask. That
and the nails. I had to wear them for four months. When they break, oh my God, they take
half your nail off." |
| "I fancied being a beautician, or doing something with
paper. I know it sounds weird, but I loved stacks of paper. I liked little things, too -
bottles of perfume or anything mini. I suppose I could have run a mini-beauty parlour or
got a job at Gulliver's World." |
| "Work hard and make sure you are somebody that other
people like to work with." |
| "Tanya would go for some flashy, powerful type, but I'm
not motivated by any of that, I like intelligent, funny men and loyal men." |
| "I'd love to live in one of those town houses in
Islington, like Sherlock Holmes' house, maybe in a couple of years that will be do-able
and it's something to work towards." |
| "There still seems to be a taboo around a woman taking
her top off on TV but I don't see why." |
| "I always wanted to perform but I didn't know exactly why
or how. I was a bit of a show-off and I loved it at secondary school, when a teacher, Tony
Walker, wrote a part into a play for me." |
| "Playing a complete bitch is fantastic. If you're having
a bad day you can get it out of your system" |
| "I will ring my grandad and tell him not to watch certain
F.W. episodes. I would be a bit embarrassed about going round knowing he's seen me on TV
in the nude." |
| "It's funny, because the first week I was working there I
did feel like I was in prison. It was so dark and rainy and the effect is so realistic,
you think: "Oh God, I'm inside!"' (about her 'Bad Girls' guest appearance) |
| "Imagine turning up on Christmas Day and everyone's seen
you butt naked, including your gran. Naked is what you do in bed and that's what you show
your lover. Above and beyond that I think it is totally unnecessary." |
| "There was always something driving me, I knew at some
stage a role would come my way that would set me off. I would be lying if I said I thought
I was going to spend my life doing Shakespeare. I always thought there was something
marketable about me." |
| "Sometimes I spent a long time without acting work -
eight months was the longest, although I was constantly going for auditions. I was
waitressing or doing reception work in between and it was disheartening at times." |
| "In the Indian takeaway there's a signed picture of me
and I get recognised in the local shop. I was walking past this car full of blokes
yesterday when one of them took his headphones off, looked straight at me and said: 'You
are an excellent actress'." |
| "My goal is to achieve ultimate happiness, not just for
myself but for everybody else around me as well." |
| "I compare my character Tanya's relationship with her
husband Jason to the real-life stormy relationship between Paul and Sheryl
Gascoigne." |
| "Tanya and me, we're both survivors, but I wouldn't use
people the way she does to get on in life" |
| "If you want to act, determination is the key - stick at
it." |
| "I never set out to lose weight because I don't think I
need to lose weight and I don't want to promote unhealthy body image in young women." |
| "I enjoy the fact that by being disciplined about what I
eat, without doing finicky diets and without depriving myself of all the nutrients I
require, that I feel happier in terms of I'm not worried about what I can wear. It makes
me feel much more active than if I sat and ate pies all day." |
| "I would love to have babies at some stage, I love
children and I would love to be a mum. I'm very lucky at the moment with all my work
though." |
| "The important thing is we never set out to say this is
what footballers do and this is what footballers' wives do. It's make believe, it's a
drama, not a documentary. I suppose it's fantasy and escapism. Visually it's so fantastic.
It's like a television version of a glossy magazine." |
| "I've always been fascinated by the media and reading
magazines and watching documentaries about people in the public eye." |
| "People have always thought I've looked older than what I
am. It will be a great time in my life. I'm at a stage where I feel very happy."
(about turning 30) |
| "I don't often go to these showbiz parties any more. I've
just moved into a new house and I've been spending a lot of time there, getting everything
the way I want it." |
| "Acting is a very self-conscious profession and a lot of
people use drugs as a kind of Dutch courage and then it gets out of hand. We need to be
positive and proactive towards everyone who has a problem with addiction." |
| "I'm a smoker. I do love cigs, and unfortunately I've
started to smoke more. I smoke when I'm bored, the worst thing. But I'm going to get in
under control. I am! I feel guilty all the time" |
