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If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

I can't leave England.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

I was a piece of meat. I was betrayed by the business of football.

If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'

By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.

If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.