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.

I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.