There are some people who are naturally talented, who just have it coming out of their ears; they just sparkle with talent. Some people - and I put myself in this category - don't fit a mould. I always looked a lot older. I was as tall as a giraffe, even at ten, but I found my place, and I really worked at it.

Suranne Jones

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I've been lucky to have some great opportunities acting with some great people since leaving Corrie, I have certainly been kept busy since leaving the street!

Suranne Jones

leaving opportunity people

I'm a magpie - I collect accessories and trinkets. But I don't have expensive tastes.

Suranne Jones

collect tastes accessories expensive

I love St. Ives and Fowey. I have childhood memories of the Headland Hotel, where 'The Witches' was filmed, standing on the Fistral Beach. There's something about packing a bikini and Wellington boots - and I'm away.

Suranne Jones

childhood love memories beach

Trust is an issue that is very personal to each individual. You want to feel love and trust and all those things that bind relationships together, with your partner, your friends, your relatives, or any loved ones.

Suranne Jones

you trust together love

I'm on the daft scale. I mean, I am a typical Virgo in some ways. I am driven. I like to be prepared. I make lists. But I also like to muck around.

Suranne Jones

i-am some like be-prepared

I think there are some people who have talent flying out of their fingers and other actors who hone their craft. I am an actor who found their way. I bettered myself throughout my career, and I am proud of that fact.

Suranne Jones

i-am myself talent people

Most of the stuff I've done is quite serious, so I'm usually studious.

Suranne Jones

quite most serious done

People love dark stories because they take you to a place you think you don't want to go but really you do.

Suranne Jones

you dark love people

I get asked to do panel shows, and reality stuff, like getting in a cage with a shark. I got asked to do a 'Strictly' special, but it's not my bag. If I'm being interviewed, that's OK, but anything else fills me with dread.

Suranne Jones

bag me special reality

I was really talkative as a child. The priest used to pray for me not to talk so much because I was distracting the other kids.

Suranne Jones

pray talk child me

My brother was older, very bright. He went to university. I wasn't academically bright - maybe at first, when I was little, but it was lost. I started doing a drama workshop and got really into it, then I did a BTec in performing arts and started to work.

Suranne Jones

doing brother work lost

Being in the public eye, with the Internet - it's scary. You can put out too much, and it becomes a part of the pie chart of who you are. Things stick. And they never go away.

Suranne Jones

never you internet eye

'Unforgiven' gave me the opportunity to be a complete changeling: the blonde hair, the research that I did at the prison. It changed the perception of me.

Suranne Jones

me research hair opportunity

It's horrible when you go to work and you're not happy.

Suranne Jones

go you work happy

I've always been ballsy. My dad is a blunt northerner, and maybe I've got a bit of that in me. I just kind of steam ahead.

Suranne Jones

ahead me always dad

It is a golden age of television, with Amazon, Sky, and Netflix. They give opportunities to people to develop their own projects together. So much stuff has to be made. There has to be more opportunity.

Suranne Jones

age together sky people

I love Sian Brooke so much; she's hysterical.

Suranne Jones

much she i-love love

There's a strong working-class work ethic in my family, which makes us strong.

Suranne Jones

work-ethic family strong work

When I'm older, I'd like to play one of Tennessee Williams's women and an older Adelaide in 'Guys and Dolls.'

Suranne Jones

older like women play

I think, sometimes, when you get a part, you're almost cooked. You're ready to go, and you know that you can start spinning plates and put your stamp on things.

Suranne Jones

start think you sometimes