It's better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.
Katherine Kelly
Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.
Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way - it's the best.
I used to work at a pub called The Miner's Rest, and the landlord, Dennis, taught me how to pour a proper pint - it's the type of place where the regulars would send their drinks back if they weren't right.
Maybe having to pretend to be in love with someone and then jump into bed with them breaks the ice very quickly; friendship follows fast.
If I had a penny for every time I've been asked if I'm going to work in America.
I'm 30; I don't have any commitments, and there are great parts out there that I want to play.
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.
I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.
I don't really get a buzz from playing characters that are similar to me 'cause that's not acting to me.
I remember, when I was a teenager, 'Pride And Prejudice' came out. We hadn't had a period drama for ages, and were all glued to it, and for the next three years, Jane Austen series were being made.
We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinning plates.
The police who did our training said 'Happy Valley' is one of the only police programmes they can watch and not burst out laughing, saying, 'As if you'd do that.' They think it's really authentic.
So many people say you have to remember to grab hold of your bride or groom and spend time with them. I think if we had done a traditional wedding, we would have been doing it for everyone else, but this was about the two of us.
Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.
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.
All I know is Andrew Davies is an amazing writer; I adore the scripts. I think that Jeremy Piven is outstanding.
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!
There are lots of people in my life I just don't get the chance to see as much as I would like.
I was excited when I first got the call, when I heard BBC Four were making a biography and they were interested in me being a part of it.
I bought the 'Happy Valley' DVD because Steve Pemberton was in it.
I take one day at a time. I've always been like that.
I'm a very separate person to my job.
You've got to be brave.
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.
Whenever there was a show like 'Calamity Jane,' me and my siblings would be plonked on stage in a costume because it was easier to have us in it rather than sort out babysitters.
If you drop a line in the theatre, you can usually find a way round it. But you can't do that as easily on television - you're in the hands of too many people.
I'm really looking forward to filming in Glasgow with a top-class cast and crew.
Until I'm actually stood on the set doing the job, I always keep my options open.
I've had a fantastic time at 'Coronation Street,' and I'm chuffed at the reaction to Becky. It's been this lovely redemption story, and I think that's what the viewers have enjoyed about it.
I would always consider going back to 'Coronation Street.'
I really like lads and grew up with two brothers and all of their mates. I'm also close to several actors that I've played opposite.
The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.
There's no sort of hierarchy at 'Corrie.' The crew get on.
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.!
In the Depression, big musicals made a comeback.
I miss everyone on 'Coronation Street,' but I don't miss playing Becky.
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.
When I left 'Coronation Street,' I wondered if I could ever be lucky enough to work with such a unanimously wonderful company of good people - and I've just come to that good bunch again.
I can't imagine soaps will ever stop, because people will always watch as long as they have great stories and characters. But the soaps will have to keep evolving, won't they?
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.
My mum and dad's hobby was amateur dramatics.
One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.
I know lots of people who work in the U.S. but don't live there.
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.
I'm delighted to join the cast of 'Field Of Blood: The Dead Hour.'
I'm quite happy being single.
As for getting married, I don't have strong feelings, really - I can take or leave it.
I'm a good old Yorkshire girl in that I don't like to talk about things that are on tick. As my nana always said, 'Until you've bought it, it's not yours,' so until it's signed on the dotted line, I don't like to talk about it.
I've never been a person to wish for stuff - I just take it as it comes.
