PERDITA WEEKS

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.'

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

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

My heritage is Scottish and a lot of Irish, too.

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

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.

Basically, less is more when it comes to film.

I love 'The Goonies!'

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

I was a very fat baby.

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

Basically, less is more when it comes to film.

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

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

People on sets can be unbearably wasteful in general.

I don't think acting's difficult. It's not like learning to walk on your hands.

'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.

Luckily, I am not at all claustrophobic.

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.

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.

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

Following America's lead, I think British TV is fantastic.

'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.'

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.'

It's good for an actor to have, well, a big gob.

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

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

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.

My heritage is Scottish and a lot of Irish, too.

I love 'The Goonies!'

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.

My name is synonymous with corsets and ringlets.

I'm a recycling obsessive.