Alex Kingston

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

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.

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

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.