Quotes from Alex Kingston

Cleopatra is one of the roles that I would love to do!

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

I'm actually very vulnerable and sensitive.

I live a very boring life.

I think I'm an extremely good mother. I know I'm an extremely good mother. But I didn't realise how much it sucks out of you.

My life isn't interesting enough for anyone to hack my phone.

Interviews usually upset me in one way or another.

I will always wear what I want and have some fun doing it. I'm not afraid to take risks with my appearance. I'm not so vain.

In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.

Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.

My daughter was born in the States, and she went into the educational system here.

In England, there just isn't that fascism of beauty and physicality or whatever. You don't have to look like a gym bunny, all buffed up and a size two. You're not judged the way you are in the States.

Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.

'Doctor Who' is really challenging and fulfilling on so many levels.

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

It's so important to spend your free time with little people. They grow up before you know it. Childhood is gone in the blink of an eye.

Given the amount of work and time my mum devoted to my sister, it left me a lot of time to play on my own. I mean, I played with kids in the street all the time, too - I definitely wasn't denied a childhood. But I do wonder whether, in a sense, acting was my way of getting noticed.

To be honest, 'Doctor Who' fans are a mixture of crazies plus solid citizens, but they're relentless.

Social media worries me because it's not part of my world.

I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

I went through about 13 rounds of IVF before I got pregnant with Salome; it was very tough.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.