Quotes from Ruth Jones

I really love 'The Windsors' - and I hope the royal family love it, too.

I am never going to like sci-fi or horror.

If you'd asked me when I was younger what life would be like in my 50s, I'd probably have imagined someone like my grandmother. I'd have looked like a little old lady who went for a shampoo and set every week. But it's funny - when you get to your 50s it's not like that at all because apart from a few aches and pains, I feel like I'm in my 30s.

I love Cardiff and love living in Cardiff - you don't have paparazzi in Cardif.

I'd like to visit the Faroe Islands and at some point take a boat trip along the Caledonian Canal in Scotland.

I wouldn't go out of my way to go to a big celebrity bash. You have to make an effort to dress up and I'm a bit lazy really.

The characters in 'Stella' wake up and they want to have a good day. They don't set out to make someone's life a misery.

I grew up in the seaside town of Porthcawl in South Wales, the third eldest of four children. We weren't overly bookworm-ish but I found the library magical - and I thought librarians earned their wages from book fines!

I love living in Wales.

I can't do bleak, I always prefer to focus on the positive.

I can't be bothered to put make-up on - I certainly don't wear it day to day.

Fleabag' is genius: there's something so brave about a character voicing what we're all thinking but are too embarrassed to say.

I'd never judge anyone who did Botox, it's a personal thing. But I wouldn't do it.

I love looking at old photographs. I don't know if it's something that gets more appealing as one gets older and you're trying to get a sense of your place in the world and the little area that your life has taken up.

Surely there's a difference between cocky and lively and entertaining.

I don't want to make things that are cynical and aggressive just because, oh my God, there's enough of that going on in the world without me adding to it.

Self-loathing is a waste of time.

I don't think anyone really has a clue what they are doing in their 20s and, in a lot of cases, their 30s.

It's a huge compliment to be seen as a dramatic actress and not just a comic actress.

At a personal level, I rather like it if you can create characters and storylines that don't have to rely on being crude and swearing.

I used to think I could only run if I was a certain weight. It was a revelation when I accepted that thinking like that was daft. I told myself if I enjoyed it, just enjoy it!

Every day you read these awful stories in the papers that make you want to weep. You think, 'Why has this happened?' But at the same, people can also be lovely to each other.

I literally found myself weeping when I was reading 'After You.'

I did get a really weird fan letter from a bloke in prison. I think it was when I was doing 'Fat Friends.' He said he'd be happy to do an exercise routine for me, to go through a fitness regime for me. I didn't take him up on the offer... dunno why?!