Michelle Fairley quotes:

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.

There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that's not right.

I've done Broadway, and it was a fantastic experience, but I'm very happy in London. If work comes that involves going to America, that's fine, but otherwise, no.

The experience of reading a novel and watching a television show are quite different. You can't let your audience get ahead of you, and you have to keep the energy and the pace and the drama up. They're very different things.

Kill me, I don't care. I do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.