Our Sunday evenings tend to be quiet and relaxing, and we try to go to bed early before the start of another busy week.
— Katherine Kelly
As an actress, weekends can be spent working, but my husband, Ryan, works regular hours as an analytics manager for L'Oreal.
I have many close male friends.
We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinning plates.
Until I'm actually stood on the set doing the job, I always keep my options open.
It's lovely being in a hit.
That's the great thing about 'Corrie': it is an ensemble cast, and it didn't rest on one person's shoulders by any means.
Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way - it's the best.
We have a part-time nanny who does a few afternoons a week. We have a nursery.
You should see the way I walk around on the way to the nursery. I look a state.
I don't think, as a journalist, I'd ever get a story written. I'd probably spend five years researching it, and by the time I'd finish it, no one would be interested in it anymore.
You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!
I bought the 'Happy Valley' DVD because Steve Pemberton was in it.
I just take every script as it comes along and take it from there.
I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.
My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'
I'm a very separate person to my job.
On Sunday, we will Skype relatives - my brother lives in America, my best friend is in Canada, and Ryan's family are all in Australia.
Maybe having to pretend to be in love with someone and then jump into bed with them breaks the ice very quickly; friendship follows fast.
Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.
Any aspirational job is tough because everyone wants to do it.
You've got to be brave.
I'm always proud to be in something that's good.
I don't really get a buzz from playing characters that are similar to me 'cause that's not acting to me.
I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.
You can't go back to work unless you have a great support network, whatever that is. My mum and dad, sister, and husband are great.
I couldn't knock on people's door; if they answered the door and said, 'I don't want to speak to you,' I'd be like, 'Oh, OK then - I wouldn't either, to be honest.'
I take my hat off to working mums and especially single working mums. I honestly don't know how they do it.
I've got a great husband who's very good with Orla - she's a real daddy's girl.
The police who did our training said 'Happy Valley' is one of the only police programmes they can watch and not burst out laughing, saying, 'As if you'd do that.' They think it's really authentic.
I've sort of overlapped every job that I've done, really.
I take one day at a time. I've always been like that.
Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.
So many people say you have to remember to grab hold of your bride or groom and spend time with them. I think if we had done a traditional wedding, we would have been doing it for everyone else, but this was about the two of us.
In the evening, we either go to the cinema or stay in and get a takeaway - my favourites are Chinese or Indian.
I really like lads and grew up with two brothers and all of their mates. I'm also close to several actors that I've played opposite.
It's better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.
I always look so different in different roles, people are never quite sure. Which is the way I like it.
I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.
There's no sort of hierarchy at 'Corrie.' The crew get on.
I wouldn't put myself on the same pedestal as Sarah Lancashire.
I get weepy even watching the news.
I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.
I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.
If you drop a line in the theatre, you can usually find a way round it. But you can't do that as easily on television - you're in the hands of too many people.
I've got a really good network that includes friends who all had babies within eight weeks of each other, plus my sister, a lovely part-time nanny and a nursery where Orla goes for half days.
There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.
I was excited when I first got the call, when I heard BBC Four were making a biography and they were interested in me being a part of it.
I've had a fantastic time at 'Coronation Street,' and I'm chuffed at the reaction to Becky. It's been this lovely redemption story, and I think that's what the viewers have enjoyed about it.
Even at home, I don't have pictures on the wall of jobs I've done.
