Quotes from Sophie Rundle

It's the reason I love doing TV - revisiting stories and characters and the length of the story arcs.

It's ridiculous, the people I get to work with.

All Anne Lister wanted was a wife, and the other liaisons couldn't commit, but Ann Walker did. She took sacrament with her, and they became wife and wife. That shows extraordinary strength.

Filming 'Jamestown' in Budapest for six months felt like summer camp. There was a lovely cast of 16 actors, and we got along so well.

When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

As a woman, you're expected to behave and model yourself in a certain way, but that's not right for everybody.

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

I want to be old Princess Margaret, without a doubt. Kaftan wearing, Caribbean island-dwelling... that's my inner spirit animal.

I love a period drama - the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you're playing.

I think I just have one of those faces that can look like lots of different people.

I'm fascinated by female relationships.

I'm always going to be an actor first and foremost, but I certainly want to have a voice in the kind of work that I'm doing.

It feels a lot freer doing a comedy.

The 'Jamestown' set was so convincing. It had been raining for a few days before we started filming, and when we turned up, we were knee-high in mud. There were pigs and goats everywhere, too, which meant the whole place smelled pretty ripe. It definitely helped us enter the 'Jamestown' world immediately.

I don't know. I feel really lucky. I've just got work in the way that I really enjoy working. That's not too much fuss. Just getting up and going on set every day.

I'd always wanted to act - since I starred in 'Alice in Wonderland' as a girl, that was it.

I rarely get recognised. Almost never.

I've never had a mental break-down, where I've grappled with my own sense of religion, but I've definitely had my heart broken and fancied people I probably shouldn't have fancied and all that stuff.

I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.

So often, when you're an actor, you're told what to do and what to say and what to wear. Your opinion is, at best, tolerated and, at worst, not wanted.

We don't see a lot of LGBTQ representation in period dramas because there was so much shame around it at the time. The stories that we tell about that time don't tend to focus explicitly on those sorts of characters, which is nonsense because they existed.

If we don't start representing women properly on screen now, we're never going to change our opinion of them as a society.

The joys of making a comedy are that it feels very playful and silly, and the energy is totally different because they want you to feel free enough to come out with something a bit mad.

I get embarrassed saying what I do. If you're chatting to a cabbie, and they don't know you're an actor, I cringe because it's always coupled with the inevitable, 'So, what have I seen you in?' And you're left reciting your CV.