Quotes from Katherine Kelly

We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinning plates.

My mum and dad's hobby was amateur dramatics.

Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.

In the Depression, big musicals made a comeback.

The next series of 'Mr Selfridge' has moved on five years. It's 1914 now, and the war is brewing. Halfway through the series, some of the Selfridges staff have to go off to fight, so they get women in to do the men's jobs.

You can't go back to work unless you have a great support network, whatever that is. My mum and dad, sister, and husband are great.

There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.

One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.

Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way - it's the best.

Until I'm actually stood on the set doing the job, I always keep my options open.

I can't imagine soaps will ever stop, because people will always watch as long as they have great stories and characters. But the soaps will have to keep evolving, won't they?

The police who did our training said 'Happy Valley' is one of the only police programmes they can watch and not burst out laughing, saying, 'As if you'd do that.' They think it's really authentic.

I would always consider going back to 'Coronation Street.'

I really like lads and grew up with two brothers and all of their mates. I'm also close to several actors that I've played opposite.

I've already been married six times in my career as an actress - twice as Becky - so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!

What is happening now to me in my career is amazing, so I dwell on the things that are happening rather than the things that aren't, because what's the point? It doesn't make them happen.

I've had a fantastic time at 'Coronation Street,' and I'm chuffed at the reaction to Becky. It's been this lovely redemption story, and I think that's what the viewers have enjoyed about it.

It's lovely being in a hit.

I have many close male friends.