Alex Kingston

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

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

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.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.