Actress

I live a very boring life.

'Doctor Who' is really challenging and fulfilling on so many levels.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

Interviews usually upset me in one way or another.

In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.

For premieres, you get designers offering to dress you for the evening, which is nice.

When I was pregnant, I did Kundalini yoga. It was all closing your eyes, dancing around, and putting your hands together to form birth canals for people to pretend to be a baby coming out.

I enjoyed my schooldays, but I thought, 'I've got to get through it, and then my life can start.'

I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

To be honest, 'Doctor Who' fans are a mixture of crazies plus solid citizens, but they're relentless.

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

I have a computer and an iPad, but I have no interest in Twitter.

I will always wear what I want and have some fun doing it. I'm not afraid to take risks with my appearance. I'm not so vain.

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

My daughter was born in the States, and she went into the educational system here.

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

The cast of 'ER' is very close, and everyone has treated me so well.

Given the amount of work and time my mum devoted to my sister, it left me a lot of time to play on my own. I mean, I played with kids in the street all the time, too - I definitely wasn't denied a childhood. But I do wonder whether, in a sense, acting was my way of getting noticed.