Quotes from Katherine Kelly

I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funniest thing was when I told her what bonfire night is all about. It's quite dark when you start breaking it down.

As for getting married, I don't have strong feelings, really - I can take or leave it.

I'm really looking forward to filming in Glasgow with a top-class cast and crew.

When I read the diary of former 'Daily Mirror' editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.

That's the great thing about 'Corrie': it is an ensemble cast, and it didn't rest on one person's shoulders by any means.

I've got a green card, so I can work there any time, but I hate reading about actors going to America, because it's not like that anymore.

When I left 'Coronation Street,' I wondered if I could ever be lucky enough to work with such a unanimously wonderful company of good people - and I've just come to that good bunch again.

I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!

I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.

There's no sort of hierarchy at 'Corrie.' The crew get on.

Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.

I couldn't knock on people's door; if they answered the door and said, 'I don't want to speak to you,' I'd be like, 'Oh, OK then - I wouldn't either, to be honest.'

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.

I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.

In the evening, we either go to the cinema or stay in and get a takeaway - my favourites are Chinese or Indian.

I don't think, as a journalist, I'd ever get a story written. I'd probably spend five years researching it, and by the time I'd finish it, no one would be interested in it anymore.

Whenever there was a show like 'Calamity Jane,' me and my siblings would be plonked on stage in a costume because it was easier to have us in it rather than sort out babysitters.

I don't really get a buzz from playing characters that are similar to me 'cause that's not acting to me.

I initially went into 'Coronation Street' for three months. If they had said back then, 'Do you want to do it for six years?' I probably would have said, 'I don't think so.'

I'm delighted to join the cast of 'Field Of Blood: The Dead Hour.'

I'm a good old Yorkshire girl in that I don't like to talk about things that are on tick. As my nana always said, 'Until you've bought it, it's not yours,' so until it's signed on the dotted line, I don't like to talk about it.

It's better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.

Maybe having to pretend to be in love with someone and then jump into bed with them breaks the ice very quickly friendship follows fast.

I love going to other people's weddings, but I have never desired a big white wedding for myself, and it has never been put on me as a pressure, an expectation.