Top 45 Katherine Kelly Quotes

I’ve sort of overlapped every job that I’ve done, really.

It’s hard when something’s bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It’d be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, ‘Oh, God, what’s going on?’

I get weepy even watching the news.

My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She’ll tell me, ‘Oh, you looked awful in that scene,’ and I’m like, ‘Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.’

You should see the way I walk around on the way to the nursery. I look a state.

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 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.

It’s been great for me to play a real baddie.

I’m really looking forward to filming in Glasgow with a top-class cast and crew.

I wouldn’t put myself on the same pedestal as Sarah Lancashire.

In the Depression, big musicals made a comeback.

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.

It’s better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.

One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.

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!

I just take every script as it comes along and take it from there.

The RSC changed my career, and ‘Coronation Street’ changed my life.

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.

I’ve got a great husband who’s very good with Orla – she’s a real daddy’s girl.

There are lots of people in my life I just don’t get the chance to see as much as I would like.

I take one day at a time. I’ve always been like that.

I’m always proud to be in something that’s good.

Until I’m actually stood on the set doing the job, I always keep my options open.

Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way – it’s the best.

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?

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.

I couldn’t knock on people’s door; if they answered the door and said, ‘I don’t want to speak to you,’ I’d be like, ‘Oh, OK then – I wouldn’t either, to be honest.’

As for getting married, I don’t have strong feelings, really – I can take or leave it.

I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.

I don’t think, as a journalist, I’d ever get a story written. I’d probably spend five years researching it, and by the time I’d finish it, no one would be interested in it anymore.

I have been listening to people’s advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.

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.’

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.

I’ve never been a person to wish for stuff – I just take it as it comes.

I love going to other people’s weddings, but I have never desired a big white wedding for myself, and it has never been put on me as a pressure, an expectation.

I’m a very separate person to my job.

I’m quite happy being single.

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.

Any aspirational job is tough because everyone wants to do it.

As an actress, weekends can be spent working, but my husband, Ryan, works regular hours as an analytics manager for L’Oreal.

You can’t go back to work unless you have a great support network, whatever that is. My mum and dad, sister, and husband are great.

You’ve got to be brave.

Awards go up at Mum and Dad’s, but home is home, and I don’t like to bring the office home.

I’m 30; I don’t have any commitments, and there are great parts out there that I want to play.