“My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and with...” — Rachel Joyce Quote

“My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.”

“I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.”

“Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.”

“My family didn't really have newspapers at home or talk about politics - my family are not political. They were too busy getting on with it - working, looking after kids, trying to pay off the mortgage, all that stuff.”

“Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.”

“You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.”