I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.

Lucy Davis

Categorized in : Myself Way Happy Childhood

My favourite season is autumn, and I love walking through woods.

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I love shutting my front door and being at home with just my dog and me. That's when I'm happiest.

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I have some lovely friends and an amazing family, and I feel very lucky with that.

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I have been very lucky - all the jobs I've done have been with lovely people. In fact, I've been on many where I've just laughed uncontrollably the whole time.

lucky done time people

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

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For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

i-am myself me night

If I'm slimmer, I feel better about myself, but I don't lose weight for anybody else or for a magazine.

lose feel better myself

I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.

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The joy I get from work is just huge.

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I work much better in sunshine. It's drizzle and grayness that I don't like.

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I'm the oldest of four children, and when I was young, I used to get the blackboard out and make my brothers and sisters sit in front of me while I taught class. They all thought I wanted to be a teacher, but I didn't. I was impersonating my teachers.

teachers me teacher children

Before Ricky Gervais came along, I was a jobbing actress and perfectly content if a little unfulfilled: I'd just done an advert for Imodium. That year, 1999, I auditioned for four parts. 'The Office' was the only one I got. What its success gave me was freedom of choice.

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The whole thing with so many people empathising with 'The Office' has made me aware of how people aren't doing jobs they love, aren't living a life they love. Which I find devastating.

me love life people

I'm annoyingly optimistic.

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I have never fancied or been attracted to a man on first meeting him.

meeting first never man

I have friends who don't even know I'm diabetic. I don't hide it, but it's the last thing I need to tell someone. I take my insulin with every meal and have kidney drugs twice a day, but that is, like, habit. That's how I deal with it.

hide someone day friends

I don't have my life mapped out. I am happy to see where it goes, and then, hopefully, I won't be disappointed.

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I'd been the girl, aged about 10, who'd twirl around her bedroom each night in the hope of waking up the following morning, having been transformed into Wonder Woman.

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I came to the realisation, rather late in the day, that whatever your body's meant to be, it will figure itself out.

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Sometimes if you do a multi-camera comedy, often there's rules, like, 'We've got to have three main laughs per page.'

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