Don’t be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I’m paddling away like a duck beneath the water. – Katherine Kelly
All I know is Andrew Davies is an amazing writer; I adore the scripts. I think that Jeremy Piven is outstanding. – Katherine Kelly
I take my hat off to working mums and especially single working mums. I honestly don’t know how they do it. – Katherine Kelly
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. – Katherine Kelly
I don’t really get a buzz from playing characters that are similar to me ’cause that’s not acting to me. – Katherine Kelly
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. – Katherine Kelly
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. – Katherine Kelly
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. – Katherine Kelly
I’m 30; I don’t have any commitments, and there are great parts out there that I want to play. – Katherine Kelly
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. – Katherine Kelly
I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back. – Katherine Kelly
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. – Katherine Kelly
When I read the diary of former ‘Daily Mirror’ editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of. – Katherine Kelly
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? – Katherine Kelly
There’s no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in. – Katherine Kelly
That’s the great thing about ‘Corrie’: it is an ensemble cast, and it didn’t rest on one person’s shoulders by any means. – Katherine Kelly
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. – Katherine Kelly
Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way – it’s the best. – Katherine Kelly
