Andrea Riseborough

As a woman, on any film or any show, we do most of the emoting. ”

I've worked with so few female directors. ”

I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself. ”

I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people. ”

I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy. ”

Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so many different characters, and the wonderful thing about being in an all-girls school was I got to play them all, you know. So I got to play Mercutio and Oberon and Malvolio - it was great. ”

When I was younger, I used to try to fit in, but now I'm much more comfortable with just being myself. ”

David Suchet's Poirot was very charming, and, when I'm away in the U.S., those series remind me of being in Britain and being British on a Sunday night. ”

We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England. ”

I worked on 'Happy-Go-Lucky' for seven-and-a-half months, and I'm in it for two minutes - largely because Sally Hawkins turned left instead of right. ”