Quotes from Perdita Weeks

There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors.

I like my name, but I do share it with a lot of dogs and cats.

People on sets can be unbearably wasteful in general.

Luckily, I am not at all claustrophobic.

My name is synonymous with corsets and ringlets.

'The Great Fire' is more what I'm used to - being in costume and make-up for a long time, trying to be 'period appropriate.'

I think the English public loves period drama. I love watching them myself. It's such a massive part of our TV tastes, even though, as an actor, you don't want to be doing the same thing again and again.

I was a very fat baby.

It takes one heck of a lot of energy to be an actor-director - a rather terrifying prospect but a challenge I would definitely relish in the future, given the chance.

It was a little bit strange as an English woman cast in 'Rebellion.' I read up about the events and, honestly, I knew very little about it to begin with it. It wasn't something that they cover in English schools at all.

I'm a recycling obsessive.

'The Da Vinci Code' and films of that nature are the ones that I really enjoy because you are learning and working out riddles as you go along.

I've got a very tough skin because I've been doing this for a long time. Rejection is simply part of it.

I personally cannot watch horror films: I am a scaredy cat and scare incredibly easily.

My overly ambitious dream is to be a Lena Dunham - I get immense pleasure seeing her name repeated over and over in the end credits of her brilliant creation 'Girls.'

There are a lot of similarities between Jonathan Higgins and Juliet Higgins: they're both British, they both come from military backgrounds, and they're both control freaks.

The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling.

It can be heart-breaking when you don't get something you really want, but there's always the next time.

Basically, less is more when it comes to film.