54 Quotes by 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 didn’t have any qualms. I’m used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I’ve done it since I was 14 – with my mother’s adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.

It’s wrong for women to be constantly shy and embarrassed about their bodies. There are so many images of unattainable beauty that are so destructive. It’s important to show how your body really is. As the cliche has it, beauty comes from within.

Children’s programming in America, I think it’s pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It’s pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don’t find any of that stimulating for children.

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

I think if you live in London, it’s such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it’s totally the opposite.

I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don’t hear about the ones who aren’t successful because we don’t like talking about it, it’s too painful.

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

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn’t like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.