“After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting...” — Julia Sawalha Quote

After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same sort of scripts again and again.

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad; I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.

I've got a string of disastrous relationships behind me. I don't think I'm an easy person to live with.

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

I can stay in the game for a long time.

As lots of us ex-pros know, you are a long time retired and there comes a stage when you would give anything to be back out there playing.

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.