Quotes from Alex Kingston

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

When I was pregnant, I did Kundalini yoga. It was all closing your eyes, dancing around, and putting your hands together to form birth canals for people to pretend to be a baby coming out.

The cast of 'ER' is very close, and everyone has treated me so well.

I lead a very quiet life and never court publicity. I don't go to a restaurant and let slip I'm leaving by the back door, like some celebrities.

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

If anyone out there wants me to play a Pre-Raphaelite character, I'd do it in a flash. That's what is so curious about my playing a modern doctor. It's not the sort of part I saw for myself when I began acting.

I have a computer and an iPad, but I have no interest in Twitter.

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.

I normally have a healthy fear of journalists.

For premieres, you get designers offering to dress you for the evening, which is nice.

In America, people come up and to me, and I keep thinking they're going to say, 'Oh, I loved you on 'ER.'' Now it's, 'Oh, I love you on 'Doctor Who.''

I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

I enjoyed my schooldays, but I thought, 'I've got to get through it, and then my life can start.'