“It was really unusual that the crews on 'Spooks' were a real mix of me...” — Nicola Walker Quote

“It was really unusual that the crews on 'Spooks' were a real mix of men and women, and you'd struggle to see many women with parts that weren't cliched back in the late '90s.”

“My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around the fact that I ran back to London as soon as I could, when I was 21.”

“I get quite fearful about interviews, so I sought advice from other actors.”

“We're all used to seeing a lot of cop shows, some of them brilliant, some of them very generic.”

“When you're a kid, you imagine acting to be singing and fighting and like the movies. Then you become an actor and get the reality, which is often a lot more mundane. But sometimes it's really nice to run around with guns saving the world.”

“The best thing my mum and dad did was to send me to the local youth theatre. I loved that; I felt I'd found the thing I really wanted to do.”

“There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.”

“I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.”

“I don't know what I want, but I do know that I don't want the usual stuff, the cliched stuff is just too mind-numbing. They sell, I know, but it makes me sad to know that.”

“I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.”

“It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.”

“It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.”