“I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing ...” — Alex Kingston Quote

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.

I have a computer and an iPad, but I have no interest in Twitter.

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

Interviews usually upset me in one way or another.

If anyone out there wants me to play a Pre-Raphaelite character, I'd do it in a flash. That's what is so curious about my playing a modern doctor. It's not the sort of part I saw for myself when I began acting.

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

I'm not a hunter, but I've been around guns all my life. I'm a great shot.

All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!'

I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.