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.

You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!

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

I bought the 'Happy Valley' DVD because Steve Pemberton was in it.

The police who did our training said 'Happy Valley' is one of the only police programmes they can watch and not burst out laughing, saying, 'As if you'd do that.' They think it's really authentic.

There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.

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

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

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.

I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.