“When I graduated, I was my biggest ever: 15 stone, with a boyfriend - ...” — Maxine Peake Quote

“When I graduated, I was my biggest ever: 15 stone, with a boyfriend - my first - of just 11 stone. I was 23 years old. It wasn't just affecting my career: it was a health issue as well.”

“I get angry about the way women are forced and bullied into what the male ideal is.”

“Cooking, you can keep. I've not the slightest interest in it.”

“Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.”

“I want to squeeze every drop out of my potential as far as affecting the world around me.”

“People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.”