Katherine Kelly Quotes

I miss everyone on ‘Coronation Street,’ but I don’t miss playing Becky.

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

In the Depression, big musicals made a comeback.

I get weepy even watching the news.

I have been listening to people’s advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.

I enjoy what I’m doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.

I bought the ‘Happy Valley’ DVD because Steve Pemberton was in it.

We have a part-time nanny who does a few afternoons a week. We have a nursery.

I’ve got a really good network that includes friends who all had babies within eight weeks of each other, plus my sister, a lovely part-time nanny and a nursery where Orla goes for half days.

The novelty of corsets and dresses and hats very soon wears off.

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!

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’ve sort of overlapped every job that I’ve done, really.

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

I would always consider going back to ‘Coronation Street.’

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

As an actress, weekends can be spent working, but my husband, Ryan, works regular hours as an analytics manager for L’Oreal.

I take one day at a time. I’ve always been like that.

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

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 always proud to be in something that’s good.

I remember, when I was a teenager, ‘Pride And Prejudice’ came out. We hadn’t had a period drama for ages, and were all glued to it, and for the next three years, Jane Austen series were being made.

It’s been great for me to play a real baddie.

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?

I’d be a terrible journalist. I wouldn’t want to pry; I just don’t have that nature.

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

All I know is Andrew Davies is an amazing writer; I adore the scripts. I think that Jeremy Piven is outstanding.

The RSC changed my career, and ‘Coronation Street’ changed my life.

I used to work at a pub called The Miner’s Rest, and the landlord, Dennis, taught me how to pour a proper pint – it’s the type of place where the regulars would send their drinks back if they weren’t right.

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

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

I have many close male friends.

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

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.

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.

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.

You should see the way I walk around on the way to the nursery. I look a state.

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

It’s hard when something’s bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It’d be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, ‘Oh, God, what’s going on?’

I’m 30; I don’t have any commitments, and there are great parts out there that I want to play.

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.

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

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.

On Sunday, we will Skype relatives – my brother lives in America, my best friend is in Canada, and Ryan’s family are all in Australia.

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.