There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way.

Keeley Hawes

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There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

Keeley Hawes

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I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.

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I've never seen an episode of Downton Abbey.

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I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

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I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

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I am delighted to join Doctor Who and to be working with this incredible team. Ms Delphox is a great character and someone I've had a lot of fun playing.

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Im a size 12 and Im very happy with it.

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'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

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Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.

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I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.

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Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.

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My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it.

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I'm a total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper.

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Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life.

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I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.

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When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.

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When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.

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The funny thing about children is that, whichever room we're in, that's where they'll be. If I'm in the bath, they'll want to be in there too, playing with the toothbrush pot or brushing my hair.

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If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.

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I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.

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