Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Katherine Kelly
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
All I know is Andrew Davies is an amazing writer; I adore the scripts. I think that Jeremy Piven is outstanding.
I know lots of people who work in the U.S. but don't live there.
I miss everyone on 'Coronation Street,' but I don't miss playing Becky.
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.
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.
I love going to other people's weddings, but I have never desired a big white wedding for myself, and it has never been put on me as a pressure, an expectation.
What is happening now to me in my career is amazing, so I dwell on the things that are happening rather than the things that aren't, because what's the point? It doesn't make them happen.
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.
I take one day at a time. I've always been like that.
I've had a fantastic time at 'Coronation Street,' and I'm chuffed at the reaction to Becky. It's been this lovely redemption story, and I think that's what the viewers have enjoyed about it.
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.
I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!
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'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.
I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.
It sounds so boring - and my brothers tease, 'Oh poor you, pulling pretend pints all day' - but it's very, very long hours, and you're knackered when you get home.
I'm a very separate person to my job.
My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'
I take my hat off to working mums and especially single working mums. I honestly don't know how they do it.
When I left 'Coronation Street,' I wondered if I could ever be lucky enough to work with such a unanimously wonderful company of good people - and I've just come to that good bunch again.
It's been great for me to play a real baddie.
I couldn't knock on people's door; if they answered the door and said, 'I don't want to speak to you,' I'd be like, 'Oh, OK then - I wouldn't either, to be honest.'
My mum and dad's hobby was amateur dramatics.
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.
Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way - it's the best.
Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.
When I read the diary of former 'Daily Mirror' editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.
I'm 30; I don't have any commitments, and there are great parts out there that I want to play.
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 don't think, as a journalist, I'd ever get a story written. I'd probably spend five years researching it, and by the time I'd finish it, no one would be interested in it anymore.
One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.
I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funniest thing was when I told her what bonfire night is all about. It's quite dark when you start breaking it down.
Even at home, I don't have pictures on the wall of jobs I've done.
I'm quite happy being single.
I'm delighted to join the cast of 'Field Of Blood: The Dead Hour.'
If you drop a line in the theatre, you can usually find a way round it. But you can't do that as easily on television - you're in the hands of too many people.
There are lots of people in my life I just don't get the chance to see as much as I would like.
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've sort of overlapped every job that I've done, really.
The novelty of corsets and dresses and hats very soon wears off.
I've got a great husband who's very good with Orla - she's a real daddy's girl.
I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.
You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!
So many people say you have to remember to grab hold of your bride or groom and spend time with them. I think if we had done a traditional wedding, we would have been doing it for everyone else, but this was about the two of us.
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!
In the Depression, big musicals made a comeback.
As for getting married, I don't have strong feelings, really - I can take or leave it.
Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.
I just take every script as it comes along and take it from there.
The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.
There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.
I would always consider going back to 'Coronation Street.'
I've never been a person to wish for stuff - I just take it as it comes.
I'm really looking forward to filming in Glasgow with a top-class cast and crew.
The police who did our training said 'Happy Valley' is one of the only police programmes they can watch and not burst out laughing, saying, 'As if you'd do that.' They think it's really authentic.
It's better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.
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 bought the 'Happy Valley' DVD because Steve Pemberton was in it.
If I had a penny for every time I've been asked if I'm going to work in America.
I was excited when I first got the call, when I heard BBC Four were making a biography and they were interested in me being a part of it.
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